Brandt Bucher <brandtbuc...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Not a much thought went into that decision, honestly. The main reason I chose an identifier there was because "as" always stores a simple name, so allowing it to potentially be other contexts or expressions (which are illegal) just seemed to create complexity. I saw we used simple identifiers in many similar places and just went with it. (As a related note, if mapping patterns had their own AST nodes, I would probably choose to represent "**rest" as an optional identifier, rather than a keyless value or optional Name.) If it causes problems for clients of the AST, it's easy to change. But I sort of like it a bit better how it is now. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue42128> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
