[Python-ideas] keyword arguments everywhere (stdlib) - issue8706

Sat Mar 3 00:12:37 CET 2012

Yury Selivanov wrote:
> On 2012年03月02日, at 5:46 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Alternative proposal: how about using '/' ? It's kind of the opposite
>> of '*' which means "keyword argument", and '/' is not a new character.
>> How about ';'? Is it possible to re-use it in this context?
>> def (a; b, *, c)
> def (; b)

Hmm -- not sure that is obvious enough. Also, your second example 
doesn't need the semi-colon at all.
~Ethan~