Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax

[Jussi Piitulainen]

Terry Reedy writes:
> On 12/12/2011 5:59 AM, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> 
> > Past experience in mathematics newsgroups tells me
> > that some mathematicians do not accept the existence of any remainder
> > operator at all.
> 
> Even though they carry hour/minute/second remindering devices on their
> bodies and put year/month/day remaindering devices on their wall?
> 'Twould be strange indeed!

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.)