Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Mon Sep 19 07:38:28 CEST 2005

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"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> 
> Karl Chen wrote:
> 
> > Hi, has anybody considered adding something like this:
> >     a = [1, 2]
> >     [ 'x', *a, 'y']
> >
> > as syntactic sugar for
> >     a = [1, 2]
> >     [ 'x' ] + a + [ 'y' ].
> >
> > Notes:
> > - This is a common operation
> 
> is it?

Not in the code that I read/use.  While "not all 3 line functions should
be a builtin", "not all <5 character typing savings should be made
syntax".

 - Josiah

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