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>> 4) she got annoyed that two completely different notations where used
>> for two very close concepts
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> This is a good point, and we are trying to move to the arg=default
> notation. Unfortunately there are still places that use the old
> notation. C functions that have optional arguments but don't accept
> keyword arguments are a bit unusual, and IIUC in most of the cases
> that's an implementation detail that could be removed.
So would it be worth the effort to identify each such place in the built-ins/stdlib and eventually change them all? I've seen support for doing so in other tracker issues and think it's a good idea personally. |
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2011-11-14 19:51:22 | eric.snow | set | recipients:
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