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Re: Small change in doc snarf output
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Michael Livshin |
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Re: Small change in doc snarf output |
Date: |
08 Aug 2001 01:16:08 +0300 |
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Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
> Michael Livshin <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > there's no problem whatsoever to change the snarfer behaviour, of
> > course, so if everybody prefers the old way I'll reinstate it.
>
> We should do it the `correct way'. There is a difference between [foo
> bar] and [foo [bar]] and only the author of the function can decided
> which one is correct. So we need a way for the docstring to specify
> how the optional arguments should be marked.
right.
for the time being, I reinstated the [foo [bar]] convention, since it
has the virtue of being compliant with the way the evaluator treats
optional arguments...
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