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

[Ethan Furman]

On 05/15/2013 11:06 PM, Andrew Barnert wrote:
> From: Steven D'Aprano
>> Andrew Barnert wrote:
>>>
>>>   Implicit concatenation is bad because you often use it accidentally when
>> you intended a comma.
>>
>> For some definition of "often".
>
> Well, yes. But Guido says he makes this mistake often, and others agree with him, and the whole discussion wouldn't have come up if it weren't a problem. So, we're still left with the conclusion:

Actually, Guido said:
>
> This is a fairly common mistake [...]

Which I understood to mean, "we all make this mistake," not necessarily that we all make this mistake often.

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~Ethan~