Seebs wrote:
> On 2010-10-03, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:50:02 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>> Well... We could maybe borrow from REXX... and
>>> use || for concatenation.
>
>>|| for concatenation? What's the connection between the pipe character
>> and concatenation?
>
> That it's used for concatenation in at least two languages (REXX and SQL).
and PL/I
>> It seems to
>> me that || was just plucked out of the air because it was unused.
>
> That's quite possible in the past, but now it'd probably be done for
> consistency with some other language that did it already.
Could be mnemonic for 'one thing followed by another thing', just like '='
originally conveyed 'one thing the same as another'.
Mel.
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