[Pyobjc-dev] Why syntax?

[Andrew Z. <az...@we...>]

This is probably a dumb question, but there isn't much of an archive on 
this topic (since there's really only been two people posting...)

Why does PyObjC mangle method names, instead of using named parameters?  
I understand why it's done that way for the Java bridge - Java is an 
inferior language.  But why for Python?  I'd like to see:

	win.initWithContentRect_styleMask_backing_defer_ (frame, 15, 2, 0)

become

	win.init(contentRect=frame, styleMask=15, backing=2, defer=0)

If you've looked at Jython, it does a lot to "pythonify" java methods 
and classes - it lets you specify thing that look like bean properties 
in constructors, for instance, and makes things that look like 
properties available as attributes.  It would be nice to do similar 
things for the PyObjC module, to make it as Pythonic as possible...

This seems really obvious, however, so I'm sure there's a reason why it 
hasn't been done.  Please enlighten.