While I agree that * for strings is unfortunate (in fact, I don't think
> that strinng concatenation warrants infix syntax), IMO this whole issue
> is a red herring: all languages have quirks like this, and while
> minimizing the number of them is a worthy goal, I wouldn't think that
> these pose the greatest conceptual difficulty when learning Julia.
>
It did not know the * convention. It is more than unfortunate. I think it
is a major mistake. I have seen Stefan Kaprinski talking about a ring of
strings. It does not make any sense as a ring needs 2 operations + and *.
If one want to go into mathematics, the set of strings looks more like a
Z-module (a kind of vector space over the ring Z).
1) "ab" + "" = "ab"
2) "abc" + "def" = "abcdef"
3) 3 * "abc" = "abcabcabc"
Well it not even true as 2 * ("ab" + "cd") = 2 * "abcd" = "abcdabcd" which
is different from 2 * "ab" + 2 * "cd" = "ababcdcd". And there is no string
s such that "ab" + s = "". So this all story of "math" is just wrong.
Isn't there a way to fix it ?
