What you are describing is very, very dissimilar to currying. It's simply multi-argument functions with a different call syntax.
Moreover, this hypothetical syntax would make no sense at all for 99% of the functions I write or call. There are a very small number of functions where a conceivable benefit night occur... And almost all of those are already covered by operators like `in` and `+`. It's not even close to worthwhile to have special syntax for rare cases. On Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 4:28 PM Mathew Elman <mathew.el...@ocado.com> wrote: > > Still, I don't want Python to try to be Cobol. > > I agree, I don't want Python to try and be Cobol, but that doesn't mean > there aren't things to learn from Cobol regarding this, if this indeed > something found there - I can't comment on that. > > > I think the intellectual argument for "English syntax" failed, > notwithstanding installed base. > > I see this argument used for python in this list (and in the wild) a lot > i.e. that it should be readable in English. I am not saying that this is > the be-all-end-all of python but it does matter. Also, this being syntax > for defining OO curried functions, achieves the goal of more English like > syntax while introducing a standard for curried functions in Python - which > are of a lot of value in many situations, but usually require nasty syntax. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/FCPD3K7OPGZTLHJ56ZUDXISJKY6L46GC/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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