Boris Borcic wrote: > I believe that in this case native linguistic intuition made the decision...
The reason has nothing to do with language. Guido didn't want sum() to become an attractive nuisance by *appearing* to be an obvious way of joining a list of strings, while actually being a very inefficient way of doing that. Considerable effort was put into trying to make sum() smart enough to detect when you were using it on a list of strings and do "".join behind the scenes, but Guido decided in the end that it wasn't worth the trouble, given that he only ever intended sum() to be used on numbers in the first place. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
