<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Raymond Hettinger</b> <<a href="mailto:python@rcn.com">python@rcn.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
[snip]<br><br>Here's that I think might not need a PEP:<br><br>* Eliminate implicit string concatenation: "abc" "def"<br>in favor of an explicit + operation. That simplifies<br>the grammar just a bit and the compiler already is
<br>smart enough to do constant fold this operation at<br>compile time. When there are multi-line concats, I think<br>the parenthesis serves us much better than a trailing \<br>which is ugly and relies on having no trailing whitespace.
<br>Replace:<br> 'hello ' \<br> 'world '<br>With:<br> ('hello ' +<br> 'world ')<br><br><br><br>Raymond<br>______________________________________________
</blockquote><div><br>I've started a discussion on python-ideas proposing to allow implicit concatenation of string variables as well as string literals.<br>-1 for elimination!<br><br>Eoghan<br> </div><br></div>