[Python-Dev] a flattening operator?

Wed Apr 19 08:52:19 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> 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.

I stand corrected. Though the look of 'print *e' bothers me.
 - Josiah