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aparmentier | 5 years ago | on: PEP 622 – Structural Pattern Matching

Interesting proposal, but I'm cringing at yet another overload for the * symbol.

a * b == "a times b"

a * * b == "a to the power of b"

f(* a) == "call f by flattening the sequence a into args of f"

f(* * a) == "call f by flattening the map a into key value args for f"

[* a] == "match a sequence with 0 or more elements, call them a"

Am I missing something? I know these all occur in different contexts, still the general rule seems to be "* either means something multiplication-y, or means 'having something to do with a sequence' -- depends on the context". It's getting to be a bit much, no?

Note: HN is making me put spaces between * to avoid interpretation as italics.

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