On 11 October 2016 at 23:50, אלעזר <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought about it a lot recently. Specifically on your proposal, and in
> general. Unpacking expression can have a much more uniform treatment in the
> language, as an expression with special "bare tuple" type - like tuple, but
> "without the braces".
That's a recipe for much deeper confusion, as it would make "*expr"
and "*expr," semantically identical
>>> *range(3),
(0, 1, 2)
As things stand, the above makes tuple expansion the same as any other
expression: you need a comma to actually make it a tuple. If you allow
a bare "*" to imply the trailing comma, then it immediately becomes
confusing when you actually *do* have a comma present, as the "*" no
longer implies a new tuple, it gets absorbed into the surrounding one.
That's outright backwards incompatible with the status quo once you
take parentheses into account:
>>> (*range(3)),
(0, 1, 2)
Regards,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia
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