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

Jan Claeys lists at janc.be
Thu Apr 19 00:43:28 CEST 2007


Op zaterdag 14-04-2007 om 23:07 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Adam Atlas:

On 14 Apr 2007, at 22.46, Jan Claeys wrote: > D uses '~' as a string concatenation operator...

Eh... I like D, but that would be confusing in Python, since it already uses ~ as a unary operator that means something totally different.

Python uses '+', '*', ':', '.', etc. for multiple different purposes already, and at least the '+' case is more confusing sometimes than '~' would ever be...

-- Jan Claeys



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