gga ha scritto: > Question, however, is from a practical pov. Since python has supported > a Sydney-like function definition since v2.0 (ie. for the past 3 years > or longer), has this issue come up and has been a clear problem for > developers of libraries in that language? > AFAIK, no, some pythonic friends seem to agree with this. I still don't understand what the CLish proposal adds over a pythonic one (sydney's one + **kw. I do like **kw split from *args). The only two things that I understand as problematic are - c API - some fuzzy sense of danger ("he's seeing my arguments' name!") OTOH it is much more complex, IMHO