Random idea of the day: How about having syntax support for currying/partial function application, like this:
func(..., a, b) func(a, ..., b) func(a, b, ...) That is: 1) Make an Ellipsis literal legal syntax in an argument list. 2) Have the compiler recognize the Ellipsis literal and transform the function call into a curried/parially applied function. So the compiler would essentially do something like this: func(a, ...) ==> curry(func, a) func(..., a) ==> rightcurry(func, a) func(a, ..., b) ==> rightcurry(curry(func,a), b) I haven't though this through much, and I'm sure there are issues, but I do like the way it looks. The "..." really stands out as saying "something is omitted here". Chris Perkins -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
