On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 7:26 AM Avi Gross <avigr...@verizon.net> wrote: > If you want to talk about recent or planned changes, fine. But make that > clear. I was talking about how in the past positional arguments did not have > defaults available at the def statement level. I was talking about how use > of the symbol "=" in the context of defining function parameters had > multiple meanings. It not only established that the parameter accepted a > keyword but also provided a default.
When was this the case? Positional arguments with defaults is a concept known in MANY languages, including C. The equals sign has nothing to do with keyword arguments. Calling on the D'Aprano Collection of Ancient Pythons for confirmation here, but I strongly suspect that positional arguments with defaults go back all the way to 1.x. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
