From: MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:23 AM
On 16/05/2013 16:57, Andrew Barnert wrote:
And then there's the fact that the "precedence" is different depending on which meaning the dot gets. Remember that what you're trying to solve is the problem that member-dot and % both have higher precedence than +.
I thought the problem we were trying to solve was that "+" has a lower precedence than "%" and attribute/method access, so implicit concatenation that's followed by "%" or ".format" can't be replaced by "+" without adding extra parentheses.
I was talking about the fact that Guido's 'Just use "+"' suggestion is insufficient, because it requires adding extra parentheses. Therefore, the problem we're trying to solve is 'member-dot and % both have higher precedence than +.' Your '"+" has a lower precedence than "%" and attribute/method access' means the exact same thing, just stated in the opposite order. So… I think I'm missing your point.