[Python-ideas] Inline Functions - idea

[Ethan Furman]

On 02/05/2014 02:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> This ought to work and be much nicer:
>
> def saveline(a, b, **kwargs):
>      # kwargs accumulates all the other, unused, locals from the caller.
>      return a + b

Yup, and that's what I proposed in my other email.  ;)


> I think what Alex is describing is a type of function which operates
> using *dynamic scoping*, rather than static/lexical scoping like Python
> functions normally do.

Possibly, but it's easy enough to simulate (at least in a read-only fashion) with **locals().

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~Ethan~