Message 155966 - Python tracker

Message155966

Author	benjamin.peterson
Recipients	benjamin.peterson, gregory.p.smith, larry, pitrou
Date	2012-03-15.22:01:37
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2012/3/15 Larry Hastings <report@bugs.python.org>: > > Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> added the comment: > > It frankly never occurred to me that you'd want mandatory keyword-only arguments. Implementing them as optional-only was easy; I'm not sure but making them possibly mandatory (or both!) might complicate matters. > > Is there a use case for 'em? No idea, but at some point we might want them and it parallels the Python interface.

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2012/3/15 Larry Hastings <report@bugs.python.org>:
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> Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> added the comment:
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> It frankly never occurred to me that you'd want mandatory keyword-only arguments.  Implementing them as optional-only was easy; I'm not sure but making them possibly mandatory (or both!) might complicate matters.
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> Is there a use case for 'em?

No idea, but at some point we might want them and it parallels the
Python interface.

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