Why isn't this a bug?

[Alex Martelli]

Russell Blau wrote:
        ...
> Of course, if someone would like to explain why something so simple and
> intuitive is a "bad idea," please enlighten me.  ;-)

I suspect the general idea is that having, say,
        print L
display perfectly identical results for many different lists, such as
        [ '1.5' , '3' ]
        [ '1.5, 3' ]
        [ 1.5, 3 ]
and so on, is considered just too prone to causing confusion.


Alex