On 10/04/2007, at 21:24, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>
>> Here's that I think might not need a PEP:
>>
>> * Eliminate implicit string concatenation: "abc" "def"
>> in favor of an explicit + operation.
>
> -0.707. I've used languages where the only way of
> splitting a string over lines is to use concatenation,
> and it's tedious.
>
>> When there are multi-line concats, I think
>> the parenthesis serves us much better than a trailing \
>
> Which can be done perfectly well as things are:
>
> ('hello '
> 'world ')
Yes, but this causes subtle bugs when you forget a comma: what
should be the second parameter ends up in the first one. You run the
program with no syntax errors and later you'll find that e-mails are
being sent to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or something like that.
As they say: just my 2 cents.
--
Humberto Diógenes
http://humberto.digi.com.br
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