On 8/27/2006 9:44 PM, Allen S. Rout wrote: > Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> According to Wikipedia, the "+" operator is used for concatenation in >> BASIC, Pascal, Delphi, Javascript, Java, Python, C++ and Ruby. These >> are probably the most commonly used modern languages other than C (which >> has no concatenation operator) or Fortran (which I just discovered today >> uses "//"). > > PERL ( "." is concatenation ) would come just behind C and maybe Java > in that list. However, that doesn't materially damage
Yes, Wikipedia mentioned Perl. But "." is a name in R, so we couldn't use it as a concatenation operator without much bigger changes than I'd want to propose. Maybe next April 1? Duncan Murdoch > >> So it seems to me that defining addition of strings to be >> concatenation is a reasonably widespread convention. > > > > - Allen S. Rout > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
