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RE: Re: Tying & Overloading

From:
Brent Dax
Date:
April 23, 2001 17:45
Subject:
RE: Re: Tying & Overloading
Message ID:
HBEGLJIBLLACNDGOHOKMEELPCBAA.brentdax1@earthlink.net
>I am not sure I do like the use of ~ here. It does not screan concatenate
to me (but then again neither did . when I started perl)

>I am thinking that maybe it should be a 2 character operator with at least
one of then being + as + is common in many other languages for doing
concatenation.

How about $a cat $b?  That keeps the theme of strings using words and
numbers using symbols--like eq vs. ==.

--Brent Dax




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