DIP 1030--Named Arguments--Community Review Round 1 Discussion

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Thursday, 20 February 2020 at 11:59:13 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 February 2020 at 11:00:16 UTC, Atila Neves 
> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> Nope: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0570/
>
> 1) Pep 570 is opt-in*. It gives you a bit more control so you 
> can have positional-only and key-word only arguments. However, 
> if you do not opt-in, then python still has a mixed of 
> positional and named arguments for everything. See the 
> standard_arg function in function examples:

That's the exact reason why they proposed 570: having named 
argument is not alway a win.