On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 02:50:53AM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> On 19/04/20 6:58 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >There are three tokens there: `**{`, an identifier, and `}`. Adding an
> >optional comma makes four.
> >
> >If this is your idea of "complicated syntax", I cannot imagine how you
> >cope with function definitions in their full generality:
>
> What I mean is that much simpler syntaxes have been proposed
> that achieve the same goal, and that don't look like something
> they're not.
I'll accept the second part, but what are those "much simpler" syntaxes?
I know of these alternatives:
**{alpha, beta, gamma}
**{:alpha, :beta, :gamma}
*, alpha, beta, gamma
**, alpha, beta, gamma
alpha=, beta=, gamma=
although I may have missed some. I'm not seeing "much" difference in
complexity between them, syntax-wise.
Can we at least try to avoid unnecessary hyperbole in describing ideas
we don't like? It's disheartening and frustrating to see microscopic
differences blown all out of proportion.
--
Steven
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