On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Ron Adam
This returns a lambda-like function.
def star_lambda(***expr): return expr
And is used this way...
result = star_lambda(a * b + c) # captures expression.
actual_result = ***result # *** resolves "result" here!
Interesting, but I don't like the way the interpretation of a function call depends on the target function. With both * and ** notations, there's absolutely no difference: the function is called with these positional and those keyword arguments, whether they came from actual args or from * or ** unpack/repacks; and there's no difference between a function that collects args with *args,**kwargs and one that collects them with individual names (or a C-level function that might do something altogether different). With this proposal, your star_lambda function's declaration changes the call site - instead of evaluating a*b+c, it has to construct an anonymous function and pass it along. ChrisA