> hopefully the language itself will support this one day, and then my ugly hack can go away. +1 here, but I'm not holding my breath. Python's BFDL has been ho

> hopefully the language itself will support this one day, and then my ugly hack can go away. +1 here, but I'm not holding my breath. Python's BFDL has been hostile to making lambda more powerful; I'm not sure what he would think about this. I think the syntax is fine. The star operator already is sensitive to the operands, so you're not impairing readability at all.