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From:
Ken Fox
Date:
November 14, 2002 06:32
Subject:
Re: String concatentation operator
Message ID:
3DD3B48F.7010102@vulpes.com
Andy Wardley wrote:

> Can we overload + in Perl 6 to work as both numeric addition
> and string concatenation ...

Isn't there some nifty Unicode operator perl6 could enlist? ;)

How about concatenating adjacent operands? ANSI C does this
with string constants and it works very well. It would become
one of those great Perl sound bites too: the community
couldn't decide on the operator, so perl6 left it out.

- Ken
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