On Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 9:01 AM Rhodri James > I think the strongest argument against both this proposal and the habit of > using split() is that everyone looking at your example string of colours, > including you and me, missed "forest green" the first time round.
I noticed that. Is forest green such an unfamiliar color? I put extra spaces between the colors (and just one inside each multi-word one) to those the intent. But yes, that's similar to the kind of error to I've made. I have a collection of single word items, then I accidentally add a multi-word one without thinking about the logic.
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