---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] Python 4: Concatenation To: electron <electro....@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 2:38 PM, electron <electro....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 8:30 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Your challenge: Find a suitable operator to use. It wants to be ASCII, >> and it has to be illegal syntax in current Python versions. It doesn't >> have to be a single character, but it should be short (two is okay, >> three is the number thou shalt stop at, four thou shalt not count, and >> five is right out) and easily typed, since string concatenation is >> incredibly common. It should ideally evoke "concatenation", but that >> isn't strictly necessary (the link between "@" and "matrix >> multiplication" is tenuous at best). > > > Just curious, does double dot `..` (also used in Lua) meet those conditions? I think so, but someone else may know of a way it'd be syntactically ambiguous or otherwise unsuitable. You'll do better to say that to the list. ChrisA
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