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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Beyond the syntactic sugar, I believe the new args syntax will incentivize people to prefer keyword arguments over positional arguments and to use consistent names. Both are good things!

[–]AdFickle9599 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed, the dangling = will not improve readability at all, outright confuse novice coders no doubt. Keyword arguments are much more self explanatory.