[Python-Dev] a flattening operator?

[Greg Ewing]

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.

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Greg