On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 3:52 PM, buck <workithar...@gmail.com> wrote: > The last one looks decorator-ish, but maybe that's proper. The implementation > of this would be quite decorator-like: take the "normal" value of x, pass it > through the indicated function, assign that value back to x. > > Try these on for size. > > head, @tuple tail = sequence > def foo(@list args, @dict kwargs): pass > foo(@args, @kwargs)
That's reasonably clean as a concept, but it's not really quite the same. None of these examples is the way a decorator works; each of them requires a fundamental change to the way Python handles the rest of the statement. head, @tuple tail = sequence -- Does this mean "take the second element of a two-element sequence, pass it through tuple(), and store the result in tail"? Because, while that might be useful, and would make perfect sense as a decorator, it's insufficient as a replacement for current "*tail" syntax. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
