I come to praise .join, not to bury it...
D-Man
dsh8290 at rit.edu
Wed Mar 7 15:31:42 EST 2001
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:46:53AM -0500, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
| Here's a professional aesthetic's take:
|
| mystring.join( )
|
| This is a perfectly normal and good-looking construct. It seems pythonic
| and beautiful, object orientation is part of Python, and this works nicely.
|
| "'".join( )
| ";".join( )
| ".".join( )
| "!".join( )
| ",".join( )
|
| All look like executable line noise. That is, the literal string's syntax
| makes the use of dotted attributes on such a string look jarring and
| off-putting. You almost expect some weird function to jump out of this
| syntax. It looks very Ruby/Perl-esque.
|
Even with my newfound understanding, provided by the Martellibot, I
agree with this. Calling a method on an object is fine. Calling it
on a literal looks weird. Take for example something like this
three = 1.__add__( 2 )
;-)
Anyways, after seeing part of the discussion here I tried a string
method on a string literal in Java and it worked as well.
I still sort of disagree with string methods like 'replace'. After
all, it doesn't really replace anything. It creates a new object with
the proper differences. Perhaps if 'replace!' were also added to
it might be clearer.
-D
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