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Author	eric.smith
Recipients	docs@python, eric.smith, krey, steven.daprano
Date	2021-08-05.11:16:52
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There's really no way we'd consider breaking possibly millions of working programs to change the parameter names. I guess you could come up with some way of supporting both sets of parameter names, but I doubt we'd accept that, either. While maybe in hindsight we should have chosen the parameter names that "ln -s" uses, that ship has sailed, and we'll have to live with it like it is.

There's really no way we'd consider breaking possibly millions of working programs to change the parameter names. I guess you could come up with some way of supporting both sets of parameter names, but I doubt we'd accept that, either.

While maybe in hindsight we should have chosen the parameter names that "ln -s" uses, that ship has sailed, and we'll have to live with it like it is.

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