Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax?

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From	Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date	2013-05-31 09:39 -0600
Subject	Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax?
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On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> I think that is the winning argument.
>> Next question is what should be the default ("", " " or',')?
>
> join, comma_join, whitejoin, linejoin variants, with different defaults?

The more specific versions should not even have the parameter as an
argument that can be supplied.  Otherwise you could do:

comma_join(words, sep=';')

which is just unclear, and there is no reason to allow it.

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Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-05-31 09:08 +0000
  Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 11:16 +0100
  Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 03:27 -0700
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-05-31 11:52 +0000
  Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 09:39 -0600

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