[Python-ideas] Implicit string literal concatenation considered harmful?

[Philip Jenvey]

On May 10, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

> On 10 May 2013 20:16, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm rather -1. It's quite convenient and I don't want to add some '+'
> signs everywhere I use it. I'm sure many people also have long string
> literals out there and will have to endure the pain of a dull task to
> "fix" their code.
> 
> However, in your case, foo('a' 'b') could raise a SyntaxWarning, since
> the "continuation" is on the same line.
> 
> I'm with Antoine. I love using implicit concatenation for splitting long literals across multiple lines.

Strongly -1 on this proposal, I also use this quite often.

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Philip Jenvey