Heh, this is sounding like PHP 1 and 2 days again. Back then I had + as the contanation operator. I actually implemented all the operators. "abc" - "b" gave you "ac". "abc" * "def" gave you the cross product vector of vectors "abc" and "def". '/' reversed that.
Not very useful. On 5 Jun 2002, Jason T. Greene wrote: > If '+' concatenates what does '-' do? > > : ) > > -Jason > > > > > On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 09:39, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > > > The latest one changes some operators. > > > > > > Nice, but why not overload + for strings to do the concatenation? > > > > Doing that would be ambiguous, to say the least. PHP automatically > > converts operand types with arithmetic + operator. What would you expect > > the result of the following expressions to be: > > > > "1" + "2" > > 1 + "2" > > "2" + $a > > > > -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ > > * 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2. * > > > > -- > > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
