Fwd: [Pythonmac-SIG] Towards PyObjC 3.0

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Greg Ewing <[email protected]> wrote:
>    counter.incrementBy(2, numberOfTimes: 7)
>
> It doesn't explicitly say at that point, but I strongly suspect that
> you *have* to call it *exactly* like that, and not any of these ways:
>
>    counter.incrementBy(2, 7)
>    counter.incrementBy(amount: 2, numberOfTimes: 7)
>    counter.incrementBy(numberOfTimes: 7, amount: 2)
>
> In other words, it's just syntactic sugar for an Objective-C method
> call, and not a true keyword-argument system. Which is rather disappointing,
> and doesn't help at all with interfacing to Python.

The manual says that this is optional, and that you can define the
first argument as a keyword one.  You can also define default values,
so perhaps it is not quite as restrictive as you fear.

The first-arguemt-is-by-default-not-a-keyword is the kind of thing
that makes sense now, as developers move from Obj-C, but surely is
going to feel very odd if swift ever catches on.

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