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Re: Error Handling Advice [message #82715 is a reply to message #82714] Mon, 14 January 2013 06:51 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
John Correira is currently offline  John Correira
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On 01/11/2013 05:51 PM, David Fanning wrote:
>
> 7. My practice is to make positional parameters required arguments, and
> keywords parameters optional arguments. I sometimes make a positional
> parameter an optional argument, if there is a compelling reason to do
> so, but I NEVER make a keyword parameter a required argument. Seeing the
> latter in other people's code makes me crazy.

Is there a technical reason behind not making a keyword a required
argument, or just a personal preference based on experience? I find it
harder to interpret a long series of positional parameters as opposed to
a list of somewhat descriptive keywords.

Regards,

John

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