[Python-ideas] Descouraging the implicit string concatenation

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Hi Facundo,

On 14.03.2018 17:47, Facundo Batista wrote:
> 2018-03-14 11:30 GMT-03:00 Stephan Houben <stephanh42 at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Op 14 mrt. 2018 15:23 schreef "Facundo Batista" <facundobatista at gmail.com>:
>>
>> I propose the discouragement of the idiom.
>>
>>
>>
>> What does that mean?
> 
> That we say "hey, this works but please don't use it, because it tends
> to a error prone way of writing some code, instead do this".

I believe this falls under coding style and is not something
we should actively discourage. It's an idiom that many programming
languages share with Python.

You may also want to look at this PEP for a longer discussion
on the topic:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3126/

Even pylint rejected a request to have a rule added for this:

https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/1589


FWIW: I use implicit concats a lot and find them very useful for
e.g. writing long SQL queries or longer string literals at indented
levels where the triple quote approach doesn't work well.

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