On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 02:25:18PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > Unlike Georg, I think '/' is plausibly ok. You should, however, > explicitly say in the PEP that it was selected not randomly but by rough > analogy. Division (/) is the inverse of multiplication (*), and > positional-only is sort of the 'inverse' of keyword-only. (If I am > wrong, and the above is just an accident, it is at least a way to > remember ;-).
I recall that was exactly the analogy Guido used when he first suggested the syntax. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com