On 15 Jan 2014 08:14, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> Actually, Nick explained that asciistr() + asciistr() returns str, > > > That part seems wrong to me, because it means that > you can't write polymorphic byte/string functions > that are composable. > > I would be -1 on that, and prefer that > asciistr + asciistr --> asciistr.
You have to pretty much reimplement str to do that. I wouldn't say no to a patch that implemented it, but we're unlikely to do that much work ourselves for something which is primarily intended as a proof of concept. Cheers, Nick. > > -- > Greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ncoghlan%40gmail.com
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