On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 7:30 AM Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
> On 25/03/2019 12:01, Jonathan Fine wrote: > > Chris Angelico asked: what does a negative string look like? > > > > This is a very good question. It looks a bit like a negative number. > > They really don't. Negative numbers are well defined in terms of being > the additive inverse of natural numbers. String concatenation doesn't > have a well-defined inverse, as you demonstrated by not actually trying > to define it. It strikes me that following this line of reasoning is at > best a category error. > I assume the whole proposal was a pastiche of the proposal to add a + operator for dictionaries. Jonathan needs to come clean before more people waste their time discussing this. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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