[Python-ideas] Implicit String Concatenation

[Georg Brandl]

Collin Winter schrieb:
> On 4/11/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Eoghan Murray schrieb:
> [snip]
>> > My proposal for Python3K is to allow string-concatenation via
>> > juxtaposition between string-literals, string-variables and expressions
>> > that evaluate to strings.
>> > Juxtaposition has some precedence in Python (the example above) and also
>> > in the awk programming language.
>>
>> No, please! The concatenation of string literals is done in the parser.
>> Your proposal would move that to runtime and introduce a "whitespace operator".
>> How would you spell that? How would you overload it? etc.
> 
> A single-width whitespace operator would just be confusing since PEP
> 3117 will be using zero-width spaces for the None typedef : )

Thinking in that directing, NO-BREAK SPACE would be a perfect choice for
an operator!

Georg

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