[Python-ideas] Implicit string literal concatenation considered harmful (options)

[Georg Brandl]

Am 20.05.2013 00:33, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
> 
> On 20 May 2013 05:24, "Ned Batchelder"
> <ned at nedbatchelder.com
> <mailto:ned at nedbatchelder.com>> wrote:
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>> On 5/19/2013 2:58 PM, Mark Janssen wrote:
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>>>> We can't just "remove implicit concatenation", because that will break code
>>>> which is currently working perfectly. And probably it will break more
>>>> working code than it will fix unnoticed broken code.
>>>
>>> Really?  Isn't the number of programs breaking roughly equal to 2, perhaps less?
>>
>>
>> Interesting, how did you get that number?
> 
> If it's based on the contents of these threads, be aware that at least one core
> developer (me) and probably more have already mostly tuned out on the grounds
> that the feature is obviously in wide enough use that changing it will break the
> world without adequate gain. We don't even have to speculate on what others
> might be doing, we know it would break *our* code.

Yep.  I just look at this thread every now and then to marvel at the absurdly
complicated ideas people come up with to replace something straightforward :)

Georg