1) I'm in favor of adding a stringify method to all collections
2) strings are special and worthy of a "special case" because strings tend to be human readable and are used in all kinds of user interface.
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On Jan 29, 2019, 16:04, Steven D'Aprano < steve@pearwood.info> wrote:On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:51:26PM +0100, Jamesie Pic wrote:
> What do you think of list.stringify(delim) ?
What's so special about lists? What do you think of:
tuple.stringify
deque.stringify
iterator.stringify
dict.keys.stringifyetc. And what's so special about strings that lists have to support a
stringify method and not every other type?list.floatify
list.intify
list.tuplify
list.setify
list.iteratorifyProgramming languages should be more about composable, re-usable general
purpose components more than special cases.--
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