Keyword arguments to functions

[ariel.balter]

Do you think shedskin will ever be able to use keyword arguments to
functions?

[Mark Dufour]

hi ariel,

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:36 PM, ariel.balter <ariel....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you think shedskin will ever be able to use keyword arguments to
> functions?

I guess it's technically possible to support statically typed *args
and **kwargs, but I think it's one of those features that are not that
useful to support for the kinds of programs shedskin targets, while
being somewhat of a pain to actually support.. in this case they are
also easy to replace with a list or dictionary, which doesn't help in
the motivation department.

note that we actually use restricted forms of *args and **kwargs (for
known keywords) inside shedskin/lib to be able to support some
functions that depend on this functionality (itertools.chain,
os.path.join..). this would be quite some work to generalize though..

thanks,
mark.
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