[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318 - generality of list; restrictions on elements

[Terry Reedy]

"Jeff Epler" <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote in message
news:20040308212953.GE12662 at unpythonic.net...
> In the suggested syntaxes, the modifiers are not a list.  There's no
> list here:
>     >>> def f() [wrapper]: pass
> just like there's no tuple* in either of these (or the above):
>     >>> def f(x, y): pass
>     >>> class C(A, B): pass
> and you can't just say
>     >>> s1 = (x, y)
>     >>> def f s1: pass
> or
>     >>> s2 = (A, B)
>     >>> class C s2: pass

There is also no tuple here: print a,b,c,  (nor any rotation in print >>
fff).

tjr