[Python-ideas] strings as iterables - from str.startswith taking any iterator instead of just tuple

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Masklinn writes:

 > I’ve used some sort of ad-hoc version of it enough that I think it’s
 > a good idea, although I’d suggest “scalar”: “atomic” also
 > exists (with very different semantics) in concurrency contexts, whereas
 > I believe scalar always means single-value (non-compound) data type.

Sure, but if you're a Unicode geek "scalar" essentially means
"character", so a string ain't that!

Seriously, all the good words have been taken two or three times
already in some other field.  Pick one and don't worry about the
overloading -- learning to spell English is *much* harder.