Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> >>>> Oliver Jowett wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> David Fetter wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Dennis has pointed out that mixing the call-with-named-parameter
> >>>>>> interface with call-by-order-of-parameters one would cause
> confusion,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Python's equivalent syntax allows you to mix the two forms so long
> >>>>> as all the by-position parameters come first:
> I'm worried about:
>
> (1) foo( integer, float);
> (2) foo( integer, integer, float a = 3 );
>
> which one is called with: foo( 2, 2 )?
This is a separate issue to the one I was discussing above. I am not
talking about default arguments at all here; I am talking about mixing
positional parameter syntax with named parameter syntax.
-O