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Re: Sane "+" string concat proposal

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From:
Casey West
Date:
April 24, 2001 12:42
Subject:
Re: Sane "+" string concat proposal
Message ID:
20010424144257.C14027@stupid.geeknest.com
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:32:09PM +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:23:24PM -0700, Austin Hastings wrote:
: > Some of the objections have gone by, but what if you reverse the
: > quotes?
: > Make operator-in-quotes be a string operator (hell, make that true for
: > the other ops, too)
: > 
: > Perl 5          Perl 6
: > --------------- ---------------
: > ->              .
: > +               +
: > .               "+"
: > eq              "=" or eq
: > gt              ">" or gt
: 
: If we go this route, we may as well just use 'cc'.  Much less typing
: (no chording), less confusing, analagous to 'eq' and
: 'gt'.

I like 'cc' for that very reason.  String operators should look the
same, imho.

-- 
Casey West
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