[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
question is, Can you think of a property that addition and
multiplication have that string concatenation and repetition do not?
I thought it was the commutative property but string*3 is
equivalent to 3*string. Any ideas?
Um, string concatenation is not commutative.
Greetings.
I'm reading How to think like a computer scientist: Learning with
Python and there's a question regarding string operations. The
question is, Can you think of a property that addition and
multiplication have that string concatenation and repetition do not?
I thought it was the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings.
I'm reading How to think like a computer scientist: Learning with
Python and there's a question regarding string operations. The
question is, Can you think of a property that addition and
multiplication have that string concatenation and repetition do
[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
On 25 May 2005 17:23:45 -0700,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm reading How to think like a computer scientist: Learning with
Python and there's a question regarding string operations. The
question is, Can you think of a property that addition and
multiplication have that string concatenation and
