String.join revisited (URGENT for 1.6)

Karl G. Ulbrich karl_python at sub.ulbrich.org
Tue May 30 18:24:54 EDT 2000


> " ".join() is just not making sense to a *lot* of people. I'm sure you
> can get used to it, but I had to blink a couple of hundred times first, myself.

I'll second that!  And for those of us spending a lot of time coding Javascript
for browser-side webpages, having mirror-image syntax is not going to be fun.

Javascript uses the form array.join("sep"), and despite its problems, it's 
not leaving the browser-world anytime soon.  

Karl




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