[Python-ideas] Implicit String Concatenation

[Georg Brandl]

Jason Orendorff schrieb:
> On 4/11/07, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have never seen a string concatentation that would look worse
>> because of a "+".
>>
>> I *have* seen some bugs where a comma was forgotten, and two arguments
>> got invisibly jammed together.  That's a pain to debug in C; in python
>> with default values, the interpreter may not even gripe sensibly.
> 
> Oh.  I just realized this happens a lot out here.  Where I work, we
> use scons, and each SConscript has a long list of filenames:
> 
> sourceFiles = [
>     'foo.c',
>     'bar.c',
>     #...many lines omitted...
>     'q1000x.c']
> 
> It's a common mistake to leave off a comma, and then scons complains
> that it can't find 'foo.cbar.c'.  This is pretty bewildering behavior
> even if you *are* a Python programmer, and not everyone here is.

I think that convinces me to support the removal.

Georg


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