Re: ... as an "expand list" unary postfix operator

[Peter Cawley <lua@...>]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Duncan Cross<duncan.cross@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:11 PM, steve donovan<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Duncan Cross<duncan.cross@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So, what do people think? Is it something you'd ever use? Is it just
>>> too ugly and weird?
>>
>> I think one meaning for ... is enough ;)  Have you considered it as a
>> function, say 'explode'?  That would be more visually distinctive.
>
> You mean, have something that looks like a function call but is
> actually not? So these would work:
>
If something looks like a function call, it should be a function call.
As this cannot be implemented as a function call, it should not look
like one.