See also https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/11030
(They came up with julia-infix-operator-debates for the alternative mailing list, which is a better suggestion.) On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 11:37:34 AM UTC-5, Patrick O'Leary wrote: > > On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 11:19:31 AM UTC-5, François Fayard wrote: >> >> I just found that the project Coq is using ++ for string concatenation. >> It has the advantage of not overloading + and still be similar to Python's >> +. What do you think ? >> > > (And Haskell, as discussed in innumerable prior conversations on this > topic.) > > Should we start a julia-stringconcat mailing list? This topic generates a > lot of heat, clearly, and has been derailing a number of otherwise > interesting threads, and I would like to read the !stringconcatenation (or > maybe !string_concatenation, or !strcat...I'm trying to bring this back > around to the original subject...) parts. > > Not trying to pick on you specifically; I'd start a new thread but it > would inevitably become another discussion on concatenation syntax. (This > might be the Julia discussion corollary to the Second Law of Julia Type > Dynamics I expressed way back in > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/524#issuecomment-4409760) > > Alright, got that off my chest. Feeling better now. > > Did Python have this much trouble when they introduced ''.join([...])? >
