On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 09:30, Federico Salerno <salerno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/07/2020 00:20, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > The need for a wildcard pattern has already been explained -- we really > want to disallow `Point(x, y, y)` but we really need to allow `Point(z, _, > _)`. Generating code to assign the value to `_` seems odd given the clear > intent to *ignore* the value. > > Would it be impossible for the parser to interpret Point(x, y, y) as "the > second and third arguments of Point must have the same value in order to > match. Bind that value to y"? Since the value has to be the same, it > doesn't matter whether y binds to the first or the second (or the nth) > instance of it. > No, that would not be impossible but fraught with problems. This is discussed in the PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/#algebraic-matching-of-repeated-names
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