Re: [rfa] misc fixes and improvements to Python code.

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Thiago" == Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com> writes:

Tom> Do you think we should use keyword arguments universally?  I was
Tom> thinking we probably should, but I think I noticed a single-argument
Tom> function without them, and I was wondering if we should bother with
Tom> those.

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Thiago> We could add keyword arguments to other functions as well, but I don't
Thiago> know of a practical advantage there, it would be only for simmetry, I
Thiago> suppose.

Yeah.

I have thought about it a bit more.  I think there are two possible
benefits to applying this to all functions.  One is that it makes the
documentation simpler -- we can simply document that the argument
names in the docs are always part of the API.  The other is that it
may make some code future-proof.

Neither of these seem all that strong to me.  I think we can leave it
as-is for now.  This is the more conservative approach, anyway, in
that we can always add keyword arguments later.

Thiago> Can someone write a gcc plugin adding exceptions as a syntax add-on to
Thiago> the C language? :-)

:)

Tom