From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-11-18T10:17:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Keyword arguments like grandma makes 'em


rcoder wrote:
> Consider this example:
>
> foo(x or y)
>
> Using your model, the 'or' keyword would actually be a keyword argument
> delimiter, so you would be calling the 'foo' method with two arguments:
> 'x', as the first positional arg, and the keyword arg 'y'.
>
> Alternately, if you continued to parse all reserved keywords as just
> that, you would prevent methods from using any of them as keyword arg
> names. You then lose a large set of useful arg labels, including 'end',
> 'until', 'alias', 'begin', and others.

I'm not sure that's neccessarily true. Yes it is true for 'and' and
'or' and a few others, but 'alias', 'begin' and other aren't really
useful in the context of arguments, so they could still be used.

T.