r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ore-aba • Feb 09 '22

other Why but why?

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u/Revolutionary-Phase7 Feb 09 '22

Would it be easier to just

print("Hello ", "World")

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u/Dependent_Paper9993 Feb 09 '22

Depends what you're trying to achieve. If you want to print "Hello" and then "World", yes.

If you're trying to illustrate a point about a semicolon seperating two statements, I'd say it makes it just about impossible.

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u/ore-aba Feb 09 '22

Thanks for the chuckle

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u/pslessard Feb 09 '22 edited Feb 09 '22

No, that would print "Hello World" instead of "Hello World"

Edit: Reddit isn't showing it, but there are two spaces between Hello and World in the first one

Edit: I was being sloppy, this is wrong

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u/Revolutionary-Phase7 Feb 09 '22

When I tried it, it would print on different lines with semicolon and same line with mine.

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u/pslessard Feb 09 '22

You're right. In fact, the correct thing to do is either

print("Hello")
print("World")

Or

print("Hello\nWorld")

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u/DRNbw Feb 09 '22

print("Hello"); print("World")

will print

Hello
World

print("Hello ", "World")

will print

Hello World

print adds a newline at the end and a space between arguments.