Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Jan 14 23:21:05 CET 2014

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On 15 Jan 2014 08:14, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
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> Guido van Rossum wrote:
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>> Actually, Nick explained that asciistr() + asciistr() returns str,
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> That part seems wrong to me, because it means that
> you can't write polymorphic byte/string functions
> that are composable.
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> I would be -1 on that, and prefer that
> asciistr + asciistr --> asciistr.

You have to pretty much reimplement str to do that. I wouldn't say no to a
patch that implemented it, but we're unlikely to do that much work
ourselves for something which is primarily intended as a proof of concept.

Cheers,
Nick.

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