
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