[Python-Dev] [slighly OT] Native speakers and hurting brains (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jul 12 05:45:21 CEST 2006

Boris Borcic wrote:

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

in what language the word "sum" an appropriate synonym for "concatenate" ? any that admits a+b to mean ''.join([a,b]), I'd say.

Not the same thing. "a + b" is usually pronounced "a plus b". Now, "plus" has a somewhat wider meaning than "sum". It sounds quite in order to say things like "I have a sandwich plus an apple in my lunch box", but it would be odd to say "I have the sum of a sandwich and an apple in my lunch box".

-- Greg

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