I come to praise .join, not to bury it...

[Grant Edwards]

In article <mailman.983997159.4842.python-list at python.org>, D-Man wrote:

>Even with my newfound understanding, provided by the Martellibot, I
>agree with this.  Calling a method on an object is fine.  Calling it
>on a literal looks weird.

What makes you think a "literal" is not an object?

> Take for example something like this
>
>three = 1.__add__( 2 )

Looks just fine to a ex-Smalltalker: everything is an object.

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