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diff --git a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst index 6889176..d0d0646 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst @@ -417,6 +417,9 @@ is equivalent to :: statement. +.. index:: + single: parameter; function definition + .. _function: .. _def: @@ -478,11 +481,14 @@ is equivalent to :: def func(): pass func = f1(arg)(f2(func)) -.. index:: triple: default; parameter; value +.. index:: + triple: default; parameter; value + single: argument; function definition -When one or more parameters have the form *parameter* ``=`` *expression*, the -function is said to have "default parameter values." For a parameter with a -default value, the corresponding argument may be omitted from a call, in which +When one or more :term:`parameters <parameter>` have the form *parameter* ``=`` +*expression*, the function is said to have "default parameter values." For a +parameter with a default value, the corresponding :term:`argument` may be +omitted from a call, in which case the parameter's default value is substituted. If a parameter has a default value, all following parameters up until the "``*``" must also have a default value --- this is a syntactic restriction that is not expressed by the grammar. |