[Python-Dev] removing nested tuple function parameters (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Sep 19 07:26:02 CEST 2005

François Pinard wrote:

The only practical reason to like this feature is sparing the need of finding an otherwise useless name for the formal argument.

If the argument represents a coherent enough concept to be passed in as a tuple in the first place, it should be possible to find a meaningful name for it. Otherwise the elements should probably be passed in as separate arguments.

Yet, if I was given the choice between nested tuple function arguments, and faster argument processing, the latter would win instantly.

I believe that exactly the same bytecode results either way, so there's no speed advantage or penalty.

Greg

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