
April 17, 2020
9:19 a.m.
On 17/04/2020 04:04, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I know what it means in function definitions, but somehow we seem to have (accidentally?) flipped from talking about Rhodi's dislike of the `*` in function *definitions* to an (imaginary? proposed?) use of `*` in function *calls*.
Have I missed something?
Someone was proposing using '*' to mean "the following are keyword parameters, take their values from variables of the same name", citing the use of '*' in function definitions as looking nice and being obvious in meaning. I was disputing both points. We do seem to have got off-track somewhat ;-) -- Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd