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[Python-Dev] removing nested tuple function parameters

Brett Cannon bcannon at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 08:43:46 CEST 2005 
On 9/18/05, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> François Pinard wrote:
> 
> > The only practical reason to like this feature is sparing the need of
> > finding an otherwise useless name for the formal argument.
> 
> If the argument represents a coherent enough concept
> to be passed in as a tuple in the first place, it
> should be possible to find a meaningful name for it.
> Otherwise the elements should probably be passed in
> as separate arguments.
> 
> > Yet, if I was given the choice between nested tuple function arguments,
> > and faster argument processing, the latter would win instantly.
> 
> I believe that exactly the same bytecode results either
> way, so there's no speed advantage or penalty.
> 

Yep, the bytecode will be the same sans the compiler-created name for
the tuple .

-Brett
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