Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax

[Jussi Piitulainen]

Eelco writes:

> > They recognize modular arithmetic but for some reason insist that
> > there is no such _binary operation_. But as I said, I don't understand
> > their concern. (Except the related concern about some programming
> > languages, not Python, where the remainder does not behave well with
> > respect to division.)
> 
> They might not be willing to define it, but as soon as we programmers
> do, well, we did.
> 
> Having studied the contemporary philosophy of mathematics, their
> concern is probably that in their minds, mathematics is whatever some
> dead guy said it was, and they dont know of any dead guy ever talking
> about a modulus operation, so therefore it 'does not exist'.
> 
> Whatever you want to call the concept we are talking about, or whether
> you care to talk about it at all, it is most certainly a binary
> operation, since there are two arguments involved. There is no way
> around that.

Yes, I think you nailed it.

But I guess I'll still be confused the next time I meet one of them.
Happens to me. :)