On 2021-09-04 05:47, Matsuoka Takuo wrote:
On Sat, 4 Sept 2021 at 16:33, Brendan Barnwell <brenb...@brenbarn.net> wrote:
In other words, currently `*` can turn what looks like one function
call with one thing inside it into one function call with several things
inside it. You are proposing to make it so `*` can turn one indexing
operation with one thing inside it into several indexing operations each
with one thing inside it. I think that is quite different.
I'm not strongly against your conclusion, but I think the two use of
`*` are analogous in fact. Consider for instance,
```
from functools import partial
curry = partial(partial, partial)
F = curry(curry(f))
```
Now F has the same amount of information as f does in the sense that
e.g., `f(1,2,3)` is equivalent to `F(1)(2)(3)`. I suspect the
proposer's idea comes from an analogy to this.
But where is the *-unpacking there? You just showed a function-call
equivalent of the multi-getter function that I suggested. I agree
that's useful in that if you want to convert multiple arguments into
multiple function calls you can make a new function that does that, but
that's not what *-unpacking does.
--
Brendan Barnwell
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no
path, and leave a trail."
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