Thomas Wouters wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
> | Also, yielding everything from an iterator:
> |
> | >>> def flatten(iterables):
> | ... for it in iterables:
> | ... yield *it
>
> Following the general rule above for *exp, that would be the same as
> yield
> tuple(it).
>
> No. *exp by itself is not valid syntax:
Why isn't it? I'd rather have one meaning for the *-prefix operator with
a single special case for assignment targets, than have a bunch of
special cases scattered across the grammar.
Besides, as the SmugLispWeenies have noted, Python is becoming more like
Lisp all the time:
(setq obj '(an ex-parrot)) ; (AN EX-PARROT)
`(I have ,obj) ; (I HAVE (AN EX-PARROT))
`(I have ,@obj) ; (I HAVE AN EX-PARROT)
Why not hasten the transformation? :p
(Only kidding!)
Neil
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