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Dmitri Blinov commented on JEXL-168:
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If dedecated operator is off the table at the moment, I agree, this will surely
provide some ground for Strings.
> Dedicated operator for String concatenation
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> Key: JEXL-168
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-168
> Project: Commons JEXL
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Dmitri Blinov
> Assignee: Henri Biestro
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 3.0
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> While overloaded '\+' operator basically works with Strings in many cases, it
> works with them in unpredictable manner, for example, if we try to
> concatenate two parts of IP address with expression "127.0" + "0.1" it will
> give us the result 127.1 by successfully trying first to convert both
> operands to numbers and perform addtion. In generic algorithm that combines
> two parts of some code from database it is hard to say what characters those
> codes might be consist of, and when this algorithm will eventually break. I
> understand that this syntax has neverthelless a long history, and changing
> its behaviour may break many legacy applications. And via the extension of
> JexlArithmetic we can override *add* method to support different priority for
> Strings, but that just means that default implementation of the very basic
> operation is not ideal. In my case I consider refraining from usage of '\+'
> for Strings altogether and overriding some other operator like '|', with less
> side effects, but anyway constructs like 127 | 1 will divert to original
> implementation. So I suggest that we could have a dedicated operator for
> concatenation, like for example in "EL 3.0" they reserved "+=" for this
> purpose, and regardless of types of operands it will convert to strings both
> parts and return concatenation.
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