[Patches] two more fix for extended call syntax

Moshe Zadka Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>
Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:04:25 +0200 (IST)


On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

> Why do you always answer with a question?

Why not?

(That's the original joke, BTW)

> I'm not sure that any of these cases is common.  Why would
>     f(*args, **kw)
> be more common than
>     f(x, *args, **kw)

Probably less common.

> It ends up that the only case that will be really expensive is
>     f(a, b=2, **kw)

But this case will probably be so uncommon, it doesn't justify the brain
cells to optimize, not to mention a simple algorithm is always more Bug
Free(tm)


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