[issue22754] Implicit String Literal Concatenation Is Evil

2014-10-28 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Also, if you really want to pursue it as a language level discussion the appropriate forum would be python-ideas. You might want to ask on python-list first about how it is used in practice, though, since it is used quite a bit (mostly in multiline expressio

[issue22754] Implicit String Literal Concatenation Is Evil

2014-10-28 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: This is a long established language feature and is not going to change. You could talk to one of the python linter projects about adding a lint option for detecting such; that would be the appropriate place for an option that would enable such checking. ---

[issue22754] Implicit String Literal Concatenation Is Evil

2014-10-28 Thread Aaron Klish
New submission from Aaron Klish: Implicit string literal concatenation where "string1" "string2" becomes "string1string2" should be a language syntax error - not a feature. This creates a silent error whenever someone builds a list of strings and forgets a comma. I can't think of any good reas