Rodrigo 🐍🚀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
Baptiste Mispelon@mathsppblog if I read it in my head, I think I just say "args". But if I read it to someone else, I'll say "star args".
(Same with **kwargs/kwargs/star star kwargs by the way)
David Zaslavsky@bmispelon @mathsppblog Kind of the same for me - in my head it's just "args", but if I'm talking to someone where there is any chance it might be misunderstood, I'll usually say "positional arguments" or something explicit.
@diazona @bmispelon but what if you're dictating something like `f(*args)` to someone? What would you say?
@mathsppblog @bmispelon I can't remember ever actually being in a position to dictate that to someone, but I imagine saying "a function f that takes any number of positional arguments" if I want to be fully clear, or perhaps "f args" or "f of args" or "f of star args" if there's enough existing context that it would be understood what I mean (although that's probably not "dictation").
@diazona @bmispelon fair enough... thanks :)