March, 2025
Opinions will differ, but I'm okay with PEP 736 being rejected. The syntax is dreadful and, as you say, looks like a mistake. Perhaps some sort of symbol? How about the underbar?
firstname=_, lastname=_, ...
This is already valid syntax since the _ is used as a variable name in the shell to contain the last output.
But I agree some placeholder after the equal sign would look nice.
Anyway, it's been discussed at length so the rejection probably means the whole idea will be postponed for a long time, if not indefinitely.
It’s tough because it really needs to be one, or at most two, characters to have any value. Something like dunder SAME would be a PITA.
Opinions will differ, but I'm okay with PEP 736 being rejected. The syntax is dreadful and, as you say, looks like a mistake. Perhaps some sort of symbol? How about the underbar?
firstname=_, lastname=_, ...
This is already valid syntax since the _ is used as a variable name in the shell to contain the last output.
But I agree some placeholder after the equal sign would look nice.
Anyway, it's been discussed at length so the rejection probably means the whole idea will be postponed for a long time, if not indefinitely.
It’s tough because it really needs to be one, or at most two, characters to have any value. Something like dunder SAME would be a PITA.