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A dialect of Lisp compiling to Python bytecode

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'pass' operator #223

Closed obriencj closed 4 years ago

obriencj commented 4 years ago

A built-in no-op operator.

At compile-time, drops all sub-expressions and evaluates to None.
At run-time, accepts *args and **kwds and returns None.

obriencj commented 4 years ago

Note that this exists because I found myself frequently authoring a no-op function, so I figured there may as well be one baked in. The existing Python statement pass provided the perfect name for it.