Robert- Monday, August 21, 2006, 9:22:19 AM, you wrote:
> Seriously though, this should be corrected. I am reminded that in > Foxpro a plus "+" can add two numbers AND concatenate 2 strings. How > is this the same you ask? Because in both cases the same thing turns > out to mean different things based upon context, which means I cannot > make a code converter that works 100%. Try "if x is a number then..." Disambiguation then becomes a simple matter of "if both x and y are numbers then add them, otherwise concatenate them". ...and if you think reusing the plus sign is bad, you should see what Ruby does with punctuation... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
