string.join() syntax quirky?

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:07:57 -0800, Chris Barker <chrishbarker at home.net> pisze:

> Another way to look at is is that joining and splitting are
> inherently string functionailty, and thus belong with the string
> object.

For me joining and splitting are approximately inverses of each other.
join indeed belongs to a string object: the one which is about to
be produced! It's like a constructor. It's a coincidence that the
separator also happens to be a string.

We could have joining without separators. In that case there would be
no string object to make this a method of. Not every function makes
sense as a method of an existing object.

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