"Andrew Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The only practical reason to like this feature is sparing the need of >> finding an otherwise useless name for the formal argument. Another >> reason, but not practical at all, is that the concept conveys some >> elegance and originality (each programming language should ideally have >> a few of these) and is enforced in other places in Python, like in the >> `for' statement -- where I find implied unpacking very, very useful. > > One other reason: It is possible to imagine using the feature to catch some > type errors at the point of call, rather than having to get into the > function itself before detecting them.
Conceptually, maybe, but implementation wise, that's not how things work. Cheers, mwh -- I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that fish follow migrating caribou. -- Paul Tomblin -- http://home.xnet.com/~raven/Sysadmin/ASR.Quotes.html _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com