On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 10:23:59AM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote: > On 18/04/20 1:53 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 12:22:36AM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote: > >>Here's another idea for the bikeshed: > >> > >> f(spam, pass eggs, ham) > > > > > >How is "pass" meaningful here? > > It means "pass these things on as they are".
You mean, without changing them in any way? As in a no-op? I don't see how that helps. The first argument `spam` is passed on as it is with no changes. The second argument `eggs` is not passed on as it is, it is converted to keyword form `eggs=eggs` at least semantically, if not in the byte-code. > Think football pass, not quiz show pass. That analogy doesn't help me, especially since I don't know which game of football you are thinking of (soccer, rugby league, rugby union, Gaelic, Australian Rules, Canadian football, gridiron, I probably missed a few...) so I don't know what the consequences of passing the ball will be. Buf for the two I am familar with, passing the ball doesn't change the ball at all. (Except it's position in space, I guess.) -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ULFLV3JXE3IQCN2GBNOGYX4UIC4S4WC3/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
