Some notes

Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Sat Oct 16 21:10:22 EDT 2004


Alex Martelli wrote:
>... The iterator over arguments, which I propose, could not be implemented
> in Python today (Python today has no way to collect yet-unevaluated
> arguments).
Ah -- that was what I didn't get: I hadn't understood f(@_args) to be 
more than f(*list(_args)) and so the rest made no sense at all to me.
Sort of an evalquote kind of thing (I think, it has been decades), I
guess.  Thanks for taking the time to explain.

-Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org



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