On 06/03/2023 15:49, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> I like the look of the & operator for concatenation, so I want to like
> this proposal. But I think I will need to see real world code to
> understand when it would be useful.
I have to second that motion. Pretty much any time I'm constructing
lines containing variable text, each string value arrives stripped and
I far more often want padding of variable width values rather than
space compression.
Understood. But perhaps in (the tiny minority? of) cases where you
*don't* want padding, you would like single space separators? 😁
Perhaps where you're not laying out a table, but constructing a
human-readable string? So
s1 + ' ' + s2 + ' ' + s3
or
' '.join((s1, s3, s3))
would become
s1 & s2 & s3
saving you a bit of typing. Just sayin'.
Best wishes
Rob Cliffe
I admit that I use M-SPC (aka just-one-space) lot in Emacsen, but I
can't recall wanting it in a program in any language.
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