> In general, though, I think it's worth emphasizing **kwargs incurs a dict > copy anyway. That means that the difference in cost of calling signatures > def f(a=optional,**kwargs) versus def f(**kwargs) is not as big as you might > initially guess. I suspect that the verbosity of the former might lead > people to believe it has a higher price (I thought so).
Whoever made the design choice of using **kwargs instead of regular parameters for performances reasons should be beaten with a spoon. Nathann -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
