Walter already decided against using + for concatenation because of the
perceived ambiguity - e.g. does "5" + "2" do "52" or "7"? He's not going
to go
for * for anything similar. Honestly, we don't need more syntactic sugar
at this
point.
- Jonathan M Davis
Isn't it quite obvious? Both "+" "*" serves nothing but ambiguity, their
literal meanings have nothing to do with chaining.
While at first look, it may seem that "+" have some relation with the
chaining. But if you think for a while, it is not chaining at all.
On the other hand "~" is designed exactly for this reason and if we were
to lower it, this "has to" be the obvious choice.
