May 20, 2013
5:22 p.m.
On 05/15/2013 11:06 PM, Andrew Barnert wrote:
From: Steven D'Aprano
Andrew Barnert wrote:
Implicit concatenation is bad because you often use it accidentally when
you intended a comma.
For some definition of "often".
Well, yes. But Guido says he makes this mistake often, and others agree with him, and the whole discussion wouldn't have come up if it weren't a problem. So, we're still left with the conclusion:
Actually, Guido said:
This is a fairly common mistake [...]
Which I understood to mean, "we all make this mistake," not necessarily that we all make this mistake often. -- ~Ethan~