I come to praise .join, not to bury it...

[Michael Hudson]

Erno Kuusela <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> writes:

> In article <982a4f0su3 at news1.newsguy.com>, "Alex Martelli"
> <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> | "Erno Kuusela" <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> wrote in message
> 
> || what's wrong with vague aesthetic?-) if lots of people share it,
> || it's not to be dismissed so lightly.
> 
> | Lots of people share the 'vague aesthetic' of desiring
> | to use braces instead of whitespace to delimit blocks
> | of statements, for example.
> 
> | Python dismisses that lightly, and that is definitely
> | a part of what makes it such a wonderful language.
> 
> it could also be argued that python uses whitespace instead
> of braces because of vague aesthetic shared by lots of people. :)

Some people don't have a problem with, or even quite like, ''.join,
too.

They tend to be quieter, though.

Cheers,
M.

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