>>>>> "Antoon" == Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Antoon> Op 2005-03-27, Joal Heagney schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> So python choose a non-deterministic direction. To me (2,3) + (4,5)
>>> equals (6,8). I don't dispute that having an operator to combine
>>> (2,3) and (4,5) in (2,3,4,5) is usefull, but they should never have
>>> used the "+" for that.
>>
>> ("alph", "bravo") + ("delta", "max") --> ("alphdelta", "bravomax")
Antoon> No, that wouldn't be the result. You are still using "+"
Antoon> for concatenation, even if only on strings. I say python
Antoon> should have used something else for concatenation (string
Antoon> concatenation included)
To me, nothing is more natural than "ab" + "cd" == "abcd". Also [1,2]
+ [3,4] == [1,2,3,4]. "Dot product" is not really too useful in real
world (non-mathematical) apps.
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