1) I'm in favor of adding a stringify method to all collections
2) strings are special and worthy of a "special case" because strings tend to
be human readable and are used in all kinds of user interface.
-------- Original Message --------
On Jan 29, 2019, 16:04, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:51:26PM +0100, Jamesie Pic wrote:
>
>> What do you think of list.stringify(delim) ?
>
> What's so special about lists? What do you think of:
>
> tuple.stringify
> deque.stringify
> iterator.stringify
> dict.keys.stringify
>
> etc. And what's so special about strings that lists have to support a
> stringify method and not every other type?
>
> list.floatify
> list.intify
> list.tuplify
> list.setify
> list.iteratorify
>
> Programming languages should be more about composable, re-usable general
> purpose components more than special cases.
>
> --
> Steve
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