On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:37 AM Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm not quite convinced about making "_" non-binding, mostly because of > the knock-on effects in the PEP for other types of patterns. It seems > to breed more special cases, and I can't help but feel that's a bad sign. > After spending some time with it in my head and in the actual testbed, it seems like a reasonable compromise. case Point(x,x): being illegal while x,x=(1,2) is perfectly legal is a bit of contention, but grammar also doesn't need to be perfectly consistent in order to learn to speak a language, it just needs to minimize the context-switching. It'd be so simple if we could use case *:, but alas.
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