On 16/05/2013 15:44, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:40 AM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
On 16/05/2013 08:08, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
As was said before the '+' operator has less priority than the '%' operator and an attribute access, i.e. it requires parenthesis in some cases. However parenthesis introduce a noise and can cause other types of errors.
I wonder whether we could use ".". Or would that be too confusing?
And I apologized for borrowing an idea from bash. Taking an idea from PHP?!?
It has high precendence as far as the parser is concerned. I know that Perl uses it. I haven't looked at PHP (I hear bad things about it! :-)).
Seriously, I don't think another operator is needed. If it's not going to be the implicit concatenation by abuttal, + or \ will carry the matter. But I share the opinion of several here: implicit concatenation is not as bad as the alternatives.
It wouldn't be an operator as such.