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Wed Feb 14 12:56:19 CET 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-February/071106.html

Hi Michael,

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:55:46PM +0000, Michael Foord wrote:
> >     x = *('variable%d' % n)
> >     f(a, b, *('keyword%d' % n) = c)
> >     class *('33strangename'):
> >         pass
> >     def *(funcname)(x, y, *(argname), *args, **kwds):
> >         pass
> >     import *modname as mymodule
> >   
> Are you for these uses or mocking them ? Some of them look interesting...

I don't actually have any strong opinion, I was just exploring all the
places in the grammar that say NAME...  Some of the above are definitely
just absurd.  In general I am failing to see much the point of syntax
extensions, so I'll step out of this discussion again.

Armin

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