Adding print-style function calls, and preproc plugins

[piet at cs.uu.nl]

>>>>> gerson.kurz at t-online.de (Gerson Kurz) (GK) writes:

GK> 1) normally, you call functions in python like this:
GK> name '(' arg { ',' arg } ')'

GK> however, 'print' is a special function in that its arguments can be
GK> written without enclosing brackets. 

It is not *can*, it is *must*.
I.e. print (a,b) is different from print a,b

GK> Wouldn't it be nice if you *could*
GK> call your "normal" functions in the same way? Would that require too
GK> much of a change to the python language?

So what would blob (a,b) mean? Is the argument (a,b) or are there two
arguments a and b?
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