[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Can you think of a property that addition and > multiplication have that string concatenation and repetition do not?"
Existence of inverses? E.g. the additive inverse of 3 is -3, but there are no "concatenative inverses" of strings. (BTW, I would consider this more about thinking like a mathematician than a computer scientist!) -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
