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

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On Thursday, 20 February 2020 at 14:49:42 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
wrote:
> 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.

I don't think nor do I expect that people would used named 
arguments all the time when using another persons code.

-Alex