Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Nov 27 17:15:56 EST 2017

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Guido van Rossum wrote:
> While it appears to rhyme with the use of a lone 
> '*' in function signatures, it would actually mean the opposite: in 
> signatures it means "don't allow any more".

That's the usage that's out of step with the rest -- all
the others can be seen as some form of wildcard.

So it's already confusing, and I don't think adding another
wildcard meaning would make things any worse.

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Greg

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