[Python-3000] PEP 3113 (Removal of Tuple Parameter Unpacking)

[Guido van Rossum]

On 3/3/07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On 3/3/07, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have mixed feelings; I won't go so far as to say I oppose removing
> > tuple-arguments, but some of the problems do have other solutions.
>
> Sure some of them have other solutions, but that does not mean that
> they should be fixed just to save this feature.

I see lukewarm support for keeping these at most, and probably
lukewarm support for removing them at well. That means I get to decide
and nobody will care much (for once :-). So my decision is to get rid
of them.

> > > Consider PEP 3102 (keyword-only arguments) and PEP 3107 (function
> > > annotations) [#pep-3102]_ [#pep-3107]_.  Both PEPs have been accepted and
> > > introduce new functionality within a function's signature.  And yet
> > > for both PEPs the new feature cannot be applied to tuple parameters.
> >
> > I hadn't realized that they couldn't be annotated.  That could be fixed.

Actually they can be annotated. But that's no reason to keep them either. :-)

Though the PEP might be fixed.

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