[Python-Dev] a flattening operator? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 19 06:45:23 CEST 2006


Josiah Carlson wrote:

One major problem with this is that except for function calls, * is the multiplication operator, which operates on two arguments. *foo is an operation on a single argument, and without parenthesis, would be ambiguously parsed.

No, it wouldn't. There's no problem in giving an operator different unary and binary meanings; '-' already does that.

-- Greg



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