Now that keyword arguments are becoming faster, I was wondering: Why not allow calling positional arguments with keywords? In cases that are not entirely inferred, keyword calling would of course be slower. The only semantic problem I see are situations like: f(x;y) = something(x,y) f(x,y) = somet…

Why not always keyword?

stevengj April 28, 2018, 7:33pm 2

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