Concise syntax for splatting args and kwargs

[jariji]

It would be nice to have a concise syntax for splatting args and kwargs.

What should g(ft...) do: should it splat the args and kwargs like this?

g(getfield(ft, :t)...; getfield(;ft, :nt)...)

[ararslan]

Since FrankenTuples iterate values in order and g(ft...) is splatting outside of a named context, I think the only thing that can be done is for g(ft...) to be equivalent to g(Tuple(ft)..., NamedTuple(ft)...) (note the lack of an intervening ;) which is currently the case. That is, all values become positional arguments. It would be nice to be able to do what you're suggesting but I don't think it's possible, nor would it be consistent with e.g. g(NamedTuple(ft)...).

ftcall serves this purpose though: ftcall(g, ft) will do what you want. We could introduce a macro that translates g(ft...) to a call to an internal function that will dispatch on whether the thing being splatted is a FrankenTuple and in that case call ftcall, otherwise just do the call as written. I'm not sure how generally useful that would be though. What do you think?

[jariji]

It would be nice to be able to do what you're suggesting but I don't think it's possible

That seems likely.