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Tue Jul 11 15:06:09 CEST 2006 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-July/067244.html

Boris Borcic wrote:

>>> I believe that in this case native linguistic intuition made the decision...
>>
>> The reason has nothing to do with language. Guido didn't
>> want sum() to become an attractive nuisance by *appearing*
>> to be an obvious way of joining a list of strings, while
>> actually being a very inefficient way of doing that.
>
> sum() *is* exactly an attractive nuisance by *appearing* to be an obvious way of
> chaining strings in a list (without actually being one).

in what language the word "sum" an appropriate synonym for "concatenate" ?

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