Stefan Behnel wrote: > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn, 25.08.2011 11:29: >> Stefan Behnel wrote: >>> It's totally unreadable to find this in the code: >>> >>> data1.merge_with(data2, true); >>> >>> Requires you to either a) know the underlying signature by heart, or b) >>> look it up before understanding the code. >>> >>> It's a lot harder to argue against this: >>> >>> data1.merge_with(data2, overwrite_duplicates=True) >>[...] >> And you will still have to know the underlying signature to name the >> argument. Worse, with keyword arguments you *have to* look up the >> documentation (i. e., it needs to be well-documented as well) to know its >> name (as the compiler can only tell you "kwargs"). > > Note that code is read more often than it gets written.
It is not clear to me why you completely ignored the rest of my counter-argument. As it is, yours is a weak argument. -- PointedEars Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. / Please do not Cc: me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
