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

[12345swordy]

On Thursday, 20 February 2020 at 15:51:57 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 February 2020 at 15:34:31 UTC, 12345swordy 
> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> I don't think nor do I expect that people would used named 
>> arguments all the time when using another persons code.
>>
>> -Alex
>
> What's that saying? If some code can be written, it will be 
> written.
>
> Regardless, it's a problem even for your own code too. If you 
> have a big code base that uses a mix of positional and keyword 
> arguments, then changing the names of function parameters 
> causes code to break.

Which it is trivial to fix, if you have right tools.

-Alex