advanced-features-functions/script.rst
changeset 457 68813d8d80fb
parent 456 be96dc6c9743
parent 410 226b6e789da5
--- a/advanced-features-functions/script.rst	Mon Nov 08 02:12:28 2010 +0530
+++ b/advanced-features-functions/script.rst	Thu Nov 11 02:28:55 2010 +0530
@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@
   welcome()
  
 
-Let us now learn what keyword arguments are. 
+Let us now learn what keyword arguments or named arguments are. We
+shall refer to them as keyword arguments, henceforth. 
 
 {{{ show a slide with examples using keyword arguments. }}}
 
@@ -186,14 +187,6 @@
 
   pie(science.values(), labels = science.keys())
 
-.. #[[Anoop: I think it will better to introduce keyword arguments as
-   keyword/named arguments, as the keyword term was quite confusing
-   for me, so can be for someone who already know certain
-   jargon's/concepts, also it would be good to tell them that these
-   are different from keywords in programming languages, explicit is
-   better than implicit, and probably you could also tell them that
-   from now on we will refer to it as just keyword arguments]]
-
 When you are calling functions in Python, you don't need to remember
 the order in which to pass the arguments. Instead, you can use the
 name of the argument to pass it a value. This slide shows a few
@@ -250,7 +243,6 @@
 .. #[punch: Need to decide, exactly what to put here. Reviewer comments
 ..  welcome.] 
   
-
 {{{ switch to slide showing classes of functions in pylab, scipy }}}
 
 .. #[[Anoop: slide missing]]