A trivial question about print

Huaiyu Zhu huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com
Fri Apr 12 19:29:15 EDT 2002


Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
>Huaiyu Zhu wrote:
>
>> Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
>> 
>>>Personally, I'd rather see curry built-in -- it IS easy to write curry
>>>in Python 2.2, but it's such a wonderful idiom (and would replace so
>>>many lambda's;-) that I'd love to see it officially blessed.  Not that
>>>I expect it to be (and nor will my heart be broken because of this:-).
>> 
>> Do you have in mind a special syntax for curry?
>
>http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52549
>
>see my curry-by-closure comments.  

Cool.  When do we expect it to occur in standard distribution?  :-)

I think that having positional
>args given at call-time concatenated after those given at curry-time
>("if any" in either case), and kw args given at call-time taking precedence 
>over those given at curry-time (ditto), is most natural and useful.
>I think the syntax you propose is equivalent (for positional args --
>you don't mention kw args).

Yours is more advanced.

Huaiyu



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