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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Wed Apr 19 08:52:19 CEST 2006


Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

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.

I stand corrected. Though the look of 'print *e' bothers me.



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