Boris Borcic wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>
>>in what language the word "sum" an appropriate synonym for "concatenate" ?
>
> any that admits a+b to mean ''.join([a,b]), I'd say.
Not the same thing. "a + b" is usually pronounced
"a plus b". Now, "plus" has a somewhat wider meaning
than "sum". It
Gareth McCaughan wrote:
> (I agree that Greg's interpretation is also not well supported
> by that thread;
I was perhaps a bit excessive in claiming that language
had nothing to do with it. What I meant was that it
wasn't the *only* consideration. If there hadn't been
any disadvantages, quite pos
Boris Borcic wrote:
> sum() *is* exactly an attractive nuisance by *appearing* to be an obvious way
> of
> chaining strings in a list (without actually being one).
But at least it fails immediately, prompting you to
look in another direction.
> I admit that there is a step of arguable interpre
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Boris Borcic wrote:
>
>>> in what language [is] the word "sum" an appropriate synonym for
>>> "concatenate" ?
>> any that admits a+b to mean ''.join([a,b]), I'd say.
>
> and what human language would that be ?
Python :)
Sure-computers-can-speak-it-but-so-can-humans'ly yo
Please end this thread. Now. Really.
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Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Boris Borcic wrote:
>
>>> in what language [is] the word "sum" an appropriate synonym for
>>> "concatenate" ?
>> any that admits a+b to mean ''.join([a,b]), I'd say.
>
> and what human language would that be ?
Let's admit the answer is 'none' (and I apologize for ac
Boris Borcic wrote:
>> in what language [is] the word "sum" an appropriate synonym for
>> "concatenate" ?
>
> any that admits a+b to mean ''.join([a,b]), I'd say.
and what human language would that be ?
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Fredrik Lundh wrote:
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> in what language the word "sum" an appropriate synonym for "concatenate" ?
any that admits a+b to mean ''.join([a,b]), I'd say.
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I wish to apologize for mistakenly pushing the "send" button on an untouched
copy of Gereth McGaughan's reply, in the case my early cancel at gmane did not
stop the propagation.
I'll profit just to add (bringing this to a conclusion)
Gareth McCaughan wrote:
> (...was not Guido's first intervent
Gareth McCaughan wrote:
> (Attention conservation notice: the following is concerned almost entirely
> with exegesis of an old python-dev thread. Those interested in improving
> Python
> and not in history and exegesis should probably ignore it.)
>
> On Tuesday 2006-07-11 13:43, Boris Borcic wrot
(Attention conservation notice: the following is concerned almost entirely
with exegesis of an old python-dev thread. Those interested in improving Python
and not in history and exegesis should probably ignore it.)
On Tuesday 2006-07-11 13:43, Boris Borcic wrote:
> >> I believe that in this case
Boris Borcic wrote:
>>> I believe that in this case native linguistic intuition made the decision...
>>
>> The reason has nothing to do with language. Guido didn't
>> want sum() to become an attractive nuisance by *appearing*
>> to be an obvious way of joining a list of strings, while
>> actually
Greg Ewing wrote:
> Boris Borcic wrote:
>
>> I believe that in this case native linguistic intuition made the decision...
>
> The reason has nothing to do with language. Guido didn't
> want sum() to become an attractive nuisance by *appearing*
> to be an obvious way of joining a list of strings,
Boris Borcic wrote:
> I believe that in this case native linguistic intuition made the decision...
The reason has nothing to do with language. Guido didn't
want sum() to become an attractive nuisance by *appearing*
to be an obvious way of joining a list of strings, while
actually being a very ine
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