Coding standard: Prefixing variables to indicate datatype

[Hans Nowak]

Terry Reedy wrote:

[join method]
> And likewise, admitting that it is a bit ugly, at least to some,
> is no exclusion to thinking that it is very handy to have it
> directly available, just like its quasi-inverse, .split(),
> and with the same syntax.

If the join operation is done by calling a method on the separator, I would 
expect the same on the split operation:

   " ".split("a b c")
   # should yield ["a", "b", "c"]

...but for some reason, that didn't make it into the design. ;-)

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