Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Sat Mar 21 21:57:22 CET 2015

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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015, at 19:16, Neil Girdhar wrote:
> Wow, this is an excellent review.  Thank you.
> 
> My only question is with respect to this:
> 
> I think there ought to be two opcodes; one for unpacking maps in
> function calls and another for literals. The whole function location
> thing is rather hideous.
> 
> What are the two opcodes?  BUILD_MAP_UNPACK and
> BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL?
> 
> The first takes (n) a number of maps that it will merge, and the second
> does the same but also accepts (function_call_location) for the purpose
> of
> error reporting?

Exactly.

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