On 06/03/2023 15:49, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Steven D'Aprano writes:
I like the look of the & operator for concatenation, so I want to like this proposal. But I think I will need to see real world code to understand when it would be useful.
I have to second that motion. Pretty much any time I'm constructing lines containing variable text, each string value arrives stripped and I far more often want padding of variable width values rather than space compression. Understood. But perhaps in (the tiny minority? of) cases where you *don't* want padding, you would like single space separators? 😁 Perhaps where you're not laying out a table, but constructing a human-readable string? So s1 + ' ' + s2 + ' ' + s3 or ' '.join((s1, s3, s3)) would become s1 & s2 & s3 saving you a bit of typing. Just sayin'. Best wishes Rob Cliffe
I admit that I use M-SPC (aka just-one-space) lot in Emacsen, but I can't recall wanting it in a program in any language. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-leave@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/DZXQJ4... Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/