<div dir="ltr">I'm with Steven D`Aprano here. Implicit string concat, in my experience, is something clear, concise and convenient.<div><br><div>I've had a bug because of it only once or twice during my whole career, and not only that "occasional" bug would have occurred either way because of a missing comma or plus sign, but it saves the trouble of having to add more symbols which usually means less surface area for bugs.</div><div><br></div><div>If you feel it affects you all so often, I would totally understand the addition of that feature in a linter, but not endorsed by the python community in any way, and with defaults probably set to disabled. I wouldn't want to add any superfluous symbols to my otherwise (at least in my opinion) cleaner code.</div></div><div><br></div><div>All in all, -1 from me.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:41 AM Greg Ewing <<a href="mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz">greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Carl Meyer wrote:<br>
> With this rule the only missing-comma that can slip through is when<br>
> you've forgotten _all_ the intervening commas in your sequence of<br>
> strings. That's much less likely.<br>
<br>
Not so unlikely when the argument list is of length 2.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Greg<br>
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