print "hello", >> file

[Erik Max Francis]

Jp Calderone wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:22:43PM +0000, phil hunt wrote:
>
> > Indeed. IMOv it's irrelevant whether += (or <<, or whatever) is
> > implemented by modifying an existing object or binding to a new one
> > -- that's just an implementation detail, of no more significance
> > bthan whether the underlying processor is a Pentium or ARM.
> 
>   No way.  It -totally- matters.  Imagine you have a Queue object you
> use to
> pass messages between two unrelated parts of your program.  You could
> define
> += for this Queue to add new messages to it.

Since strings are immutable, it couldn't possibly work any other way.

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