How do you read `*args` out loud in the context of a #Python function signature?

PLEASE reply with how you'd read it, I'm trying to prove someone wrong 🀣

Boosts are appreciated :D

@mathsppblog "*args" is "splat args" for me.

By extension "** args" is "splat splat args". Obviously.

@ax6761 interesting! Where do you get the β€œsplat” from?

@mathsppblog I certainly met "splat" outside of Python; could have been ...

Perl 5’s list-flattening and reference-taking design choices, 20171129,
by Aristotle,
https://blogs.perl.org/users/aristotle/2017/11/perl5-refs-flattening.html

... where I might have picked it up.

Perl 5’s list-flattening and reference-taking design choices | Aristotle [blogs.perl.org]