Antoon Pardon wrote: > On 2006-10-12, Magnus Lycka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Antoon Pardon wrote: >> >>>Well maybe he didn't intend that, but how is the reader of the >>>documentation to know that? The reader can only go by how >>>things are documented. If those are not entirely consistent >>>with the intend of the programmer, that is not the readers >>>fault. >> >>I don't think I ever assumed that it was right to call functions >>with keyword arguments if they weren't defined with keyword >>parameters, > > > I'm not sure I follow here. AFAICS, you can't define keyword > parameters. You can give default values to parameters but > this is orthogonal to calling a function with keywords. > Yup, that's a point that the documentation doesn't make stringly enough.
> If we somehow want to seperate parameters in those that > can be used with a keyword and those that don't it has > to be something different than providing a default value > to that parameter. > Indeed. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
