computing with characters

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Diez B. Roggisch writes:

>> However, join() is really bizarre.  The list rather than the
>> separator should be the leading actor.
>
> Certainly *not*! This would be the way ruby does it, and IMHO it
> does not make sense to add join as a string-processing related
> method/functionality to a general purpose sequence type.

Okay, my wording was unfortunate.  However, I've already twice
(before and after the above posting of mine) said what I mean,
namely join(list, separator), possibly with a default value for
"separator".

Tschö,
Torsten.

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