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

[Duncan Cross <duncan.cross@...>]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Peter Cawley<lua@corsix.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

I agree - I just wanted to fully understand what steve was suggesting
first, he might have meant a real function that does the same thing
somehow.

-Duncan