Some notes

[Alex Martelli]

Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> wrote:

> Alex Martelli wrote:
> >... The iterator over arguments, which I propose, could not be implemented
> > in Python today (Python today has no way to collect yet-unevaluated
> > arguments).
> Ah -- that was what I didn't get: I hadn't understood f(@_args) to be
> more than f(*list(_args)) and so the rest made no sense at all to me.
> Sort of an evalquote kind of thing (I think, it has been decades), I

Yep, sort of, with "skippable iterators" as the natural way to access
(possibly only some of) the resulting values.

> guess.  Thanks for taking the time to explain.

You're welcome, and I apologize if my original sketch had been way too,
well, sketchy;-).


Alex