On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:15:56AM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >While it appears to rhyme with the use of a lone
> >'*' in function signatures, it would actually mean the opposite: in
> >signatures it means "don't allow any more".
>
> That's the usage that's out of step with the rest -- all
> the others can be seen as some form of wildcard.
>
> So it's already confusing, and I don't think adding another
> wildcard meaning would make things any worse.
How does "stop iterating here" equate to a wildcard?
We already have a "wildcard" for iterable unpacking, using the extended
iterable unpacking syntax:
x, y, *z = iterable
which unpacks the first two items into x and y and the rest into z. This
is the opposite: *stop* unpacking, so that after x and y are unpacked
the process stops. I don't see how this is conceptually a wild card.
--
Steve
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