On 02/26/2013 06:30 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 2/26/2013 1:47 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
I think positional-only functions should be discouraged, but we don't
If I were writing something like Clinic, I would be tempted to not
have that option. But I was actually thinking about something in the
On 2/26/2013 1:47 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
On 02/26/2013 08:11 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
The PEP gives an internal, developer-focused rationale. I think there
is also an external, user-focused rationale. As much as possible (with
obvious caveats about type introspection), I think it should be
tran
On 02/26/2013 08:11 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
The PEP gives an internal, developer-focused rationale. I think there
is also an external, user-focused rationale. As much as possible (with
obvious caveats about type introspection), I think it should be
transparent to users (other than speed) whether
On 2/25/2013 7:11 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
Following up on a conversation on python-dev from last December:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/122920.html
I'm pleased to announced PEP 436, proposing Argument Clinic for adoption
into the CPython source tree.
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Stefan Krah wrote:
> Eli Bendersky wrote:
>> For anyone who isn't following the issue: A PEP proposing a different DSL
>> will be forthcoming either this or next weekend.
>>
>>
>> If the two proposals share at least the motivation, would it not be more
>>
Eli Bendersky wrote:
> For anyone who isn't following the issue: A PEP proposing a different DSL
> will be forthcoming either this or next weekend.
>
>
> If the two proposals share at least the motivation, would it not be more
> constructive to just have them listed as alternatives in a
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
>
> Following up on a conversation on python-dev from last December:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/122920.html
>
> I'm pleased to announced PEP 436, proposing Argument Clinic for adoption
> into the CPython sou
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Stefan Krah wrote:
> Larry Hastings wrote:
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue16612
> >
> > I'm guessing python-dev is the right place for the ten-thousand-foot view
> > topics: the merits of the specific proposed DSL syntax, the possible
> runtime
> > extensio
Larry Hastings wrote:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue16612
>
> I'm guessing python-dev is the right place for the ten-thousand-foot view
> topics: the merits of the specific proposed DSL syntax, the possible runtime
> extension API, and the approach as a whole. So for now let's just use the b
