On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:03:50AM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Guys, is it really worth saving a few hits on the auto-complete key
> by adding even more mysterious twists to the existing Python function
> call syntax ?
>
> The current version already strikes me as way too complex.
> It's by far the most complex piece of grammar we have in Python:
(I think you pasted the typedarglist rules twice.)
Now that Python is moving to a PEG parser, could it be simplified?
Might we get sequence-unpacking parameters back again?
# Legal in Python 2, illegal in Python 3.
py> def func(a, (b, c), d):
... print a, b, c, d
...
py> func(1, "ab", 3)
1 a b 3
I know that was a feature that got removed only because it was hard to
specify in the grammer, even though it was used by lots of people.
--
Steven
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