[Python-ideas] Implicit string literal concatenation considered harmful?

[Greg Ewing]

Ian Cordasco wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward at gmail.com> wrote:

>>It partitions the conceptual space.  "+" is a mathematical operator,
>>but strings are not numbers.
> 
> But + is already a supported operation on strings

I still think about these two kinds of concatenation in
different ways, though. When I use implicit concatenation,
I don't think in terms of taking two strings and joining
them together. I'm just writing a single string literal
that happens to span two source lines.

I believe that distinguishing them visually helps
readability. Using + for both makes things look more
complicated than they really are.

-- 
Greg