On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 4:38 AM Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 10:25:02AM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: > > > Which is horrible. Put the @ at the front: > > > > - its relation to decorators, and delayed evaluation, is much more clear > > - it stands out better to the reader > > I agree. (Well, I would, wouldn't I? :-) > > But if people really, really hate the idea of the @ symbol as a prefix > modifier/sigil, I think that there are some alternatives which also look > good. (See my previous post.) > > !parameter=expression # bang parameter > >parameter=expression > ^parameter=expression > ~parameter=expression > > (but not $parameter, thank you). > > I suppose that we could even add yet another overloaded meaning on the > asterix: > > # with no default, * keeps the old meaning of collecting > # extra positional values > > *parameter > > # with a default, * triggers late-binding > > *parameter=expression > > I should hate that, I know I should... but I kinda don't. >
I'll save you the trouble: I hate that :) As I said in the other post, *param changes the meaning of param itself. If there's any meaning to *param=expr, it should be something like "provide one or more args, but if you provide zero, use this instead". Which seems pretty weird. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NT5UCVQAFWJXGRHPZXHHCPSIRCCR7RBX/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
