On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:33:21PM +0200, Juerd wrote: : You suggested cat as a join assuming '' in an old thread. I still like : that idea. : : [ 'a' .. 'e' ].join # "a b c d e" : [ 'a' .. 'e' ].cat # "abcde"
I had forgotten that. Yes, there is a little something to be said for preserving the (mostly false) symmetry of split and join. I think I argued for .cat on the basis that it also gives us cat as a list operator. But these days that's just [~], so at the moment I'm inclined to stick with argumentless .join doing concatenation, especially since I'd like to undo the split(' ') special case anyway and use a different notation for word splitting. Larry