From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-11-23T02:18:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Allow *array expansion anywhere in list

Hi,

In message "Re: Allow *array expansion anywhere in list"
    on 02/11/23, Carlos <angus@quovadis.com.ar> writes:

|# now I have a 'line' method, from an external library, defined as:
|# def line x1, y1, x2, y2, attrs
|
|line(*p1, *p2, attrs)  # parse error
|==
|
|Isn't this more clear and natural and mantainable and easy than
|
|line(p1.x, p1.y, p2.x, p2.y, attrs)
|
|?

I don't think so.  In my opinion, the latter is far easier to read and
maintain, since we don't have to guess.  Only case that *array is
useful, is extending homogeneous values in the list, e.g.
[a,b,c,*d,*e,f].  But I'm not sure if it is *that* useful enough o
change the syntax, and loose symmetry with unary* in parameter list.


							matz.