why * is not like unquote (scheme)

[Carl Banks]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Note that your other experiment with (1, 2, *(3, 4)) is also
> not currently supported, again because there's no function call
> involved, with the associated expansion of the tuple into a
> list of arguments.  Again, no technical reason it couldn't
> be added to the language (well, not a major one, I believe)
> and it has been discussed before as a possibly desirable change
> (meaning nobody has tried to submit a patch yet ;-), but
> it is not currently supported.

I'm guessing "never."

If you want something like that, it's easy to use tuple addition.
And, if you must have * syntax, you can define a function to get
pretty much the same behavior:

    def return_args(*args): return args


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CARL BANKS