>> I agree. It's yuck. > > So don't use it. If it were that simple, I wouldn't have bothered bringing it up. I really do believe this is a case of "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it" (as well as "Explicit is better than implicit" and "Readability counts").
If it's there, people will use it, and that means that people will have to know about it to understand that it means join and not divide (as some will expect). They'll to choose whether to use it (be explicit) or not, where the "only one obvious way" would remove the need for the choice. One could argue that since "Although practicality beats purity" and "Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch" also apply here, although the latter will require Guido's answer, of course. =Tony.Meyer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
