[Python-ideas] Implicit String Concatenation (original) (raw)

Eoghan Murray eoghan at qatano.com
Wed Apr 11 18:23:46 CEST 2007

Hi guys,

Thanks for your replies:

On 4/11/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

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No, please! The concatenation of string literals is done in the parser.

Your proposal would move that to runtime [snip...]

An implementation detail?

[...snip] and introduce a "whitespace operator".

How would you spell that? How would you overload it? etc.

This is exactly what I'm proposing. You could spell it juxta short for juxtaposition or concat, and overload it as usual :-)

On 11/04/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:

A single-width whitespace operator would just be confusing since PEP 3117 will be using zero-width spaces for the None typedef : )

3117 looks cool, but it is in draft stages so needn't factor.

Anyone with any positive reactions?