On Tue, 5 May 2020 23:06:39 +1000
Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> ... help me solve the DRY problem for module-level functions:
>
> def function(spam, eggs, cheese, aardvark):
> do stuff
> call _private_function(spam, eggs, cheese, aardvark)
>
> since this bites me about twice as often as the `self.spam = spam`
> issue.
>
> (That's not me being snarky by the way, it's a genuine question:
> dataclasses are a mystery to me, so I don't know what they can and can't
> do.)
Lisp macros have a "&whole" feature that captures the entire collection
of arguments to the macro:
http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/03_dd.htm
Perhaps Python could adopt something similar? Unlike *args and
**kwargs, &whole captures all of the parameters, not just the
non-positional, non-named ones. The idea would be something like this:
def function(spam, eggs, cheese, aardvark, &whole):
do_stuff
_private_function(&whole)
which would call _private_function as function was called. No, Lisp
macros are not Python function calls. No, I'm not proposing that exact
syntax. No, I haven't thought it through. Yes, it borders on magic,
and may impinge on implicit vs. explicit. But evidently, Steven and I
share this particular pattern, although I never considered it enough of
a problem to "solve."
Dan
--
“Atoms are not things.” – Werner Heisenberg
Dan Sommers, http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan
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