Maybe I meant "Socratic question." I was hoping you would realize there's no way (short of parsing the source code) to know how many zeros were entered as the second argument, hence that the proposal has a flaw.
On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 3:28 PM Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote: > (Rhetorical question:) How could my_int_maker(1, 00, 23) return 10023? >> > > Sorry I haven't been on the list long: does "rhetorical question" mean the > same thing to the Dutch as to Americans? ;) > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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