[Python-ideas] PEP 428: poll about the joining syntax

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Tue Oct 9 18:35:02 CEST 2012


On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 11:34:24PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
> I just consulted a thesaurus about synonyms for 'append',
> and it came up with 'affix' and 'adjoin'.

Yet another possibility is "combine", which unlike "join", gives less of
an implicit guarantee that it's a straightforward concatenation.

Other synonyms for "combine" include "couple", "fuse", and "hitch".

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