Boris Borcic wrote: > sum() *is* exactly an attractive nuisance by *appearing* to be an obvious way > of > chaining strings in a list (without actually being one).
But at least it fails immediately, prompting you to look in another direction. > I admit that there is a step of arguable interpretation from these recorded > facts to my diagnostic, but the latter is compatible with the facts. Your > version otoh looks more robust in the role of eg creation myth. I suppose you could call that a linguistic matter, but I don't think it's exclusively a *native* one. I suspect that only someone with a programmer's warped mind would make the leap from "sum" to "string concatenation" -- whether they were a native English speaker or not. Also I don't see that my version of events is inconsistent with the messages you quoted either -- at least not so much as to be relegated to a myth! -- 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
