Re: Strings vs Numbers (Re: Tying & Overloading)

[Michael G Schwern]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:23:33PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote:
> ok, well.. I've heard arguments for '+' (namely that its intuitive, other 
> language compatible, etc...) so what are the arguments against it?

This one seems to have slipped by...
http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-language%40perl.org/msg06550.html

Basically talking about the problems of trying to use the same
operator for strings and concat in a typeless language.


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