On 5/9/2018 9:02 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:50:13AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
I too spent some time scratching my head trying to guess what you expect
this "j" format code to do, including the fundamental question "why j
and not some other letter?".
Interestingly, that question didn't faze me in the slightest. But
maybe my instant and automatic "oh you mean join" coloured my
expectations elsewhere, and possibly not correctly.
Oh, I didn't think of that! I was thinking i, j, k as integers, and
thinking "i is used, and j is the next letter".
I took me several minutes to *guess* that j abbreviated join. It would
have been better if it were given in the proposal.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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