[Python-ideas] Implicit String Concatenation

[Georg Brandl]

Eoghan Murray schrieb:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Thanks for your replies:
> 
> 
>     On 4/11/07, Georg Brandl < g.brandl at gmx.net
>     <mailto:g.brandl at gmx.net>> wrote:
>     [snip]
> 
>      No, please! The concatenation of string literals is done in the parser.
> 
>      Your proposal would move that to runtime [snip...]
> 
> 
>  An implementation detail?

A rather involved "detail".

>      [...snip] and introduce a "whitespace operator".
>      How would you spell that? How would you overload it? etc.
> 
> 
> This is exactly what I'm proposing.  You could spell it __juxta__  short 
> for juxtaposition or __concat__, and overload it as usual :-)
> 
>     A single-width whitespace operator would just be confusing since PEP
>     3117 will be using zero-width spaces for the None typedef : )
> 
> 
> 3117 looks cool, but it is in draft stages so needn't factor.

This is a joke, isn't it? You're a bit late...

Georg

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