I think I'd call this destructuring, as opposed to patterns and matches, and Python still does it, just not in the function head. I do wish they went the oppos

I think I'd call this destructuring, as opposed to patterns and matches, and Python still does it, just not in the function head. I do wish they went the opposite direction and made the feature better instead of keeping it as a weird assignment thing in the body. The match statement is a similarly unfortunate solution, in my opinion. Oh well. :)