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Re: [ID 20000403.009] uninitialised concatenation???

From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
April 4, 2000 08:00
Subject:
Re: [ID 20000403.009] uninitialised concatenation???
Message ID:
6810.954860386@chthon
>On the other hand, the Perl programmer has not explicitly defined string
>interpolation to be the same as string concatenation.  

That's right: the user has not--the language has.

>That is an
>implementation detail of the Perl compiler.  The programmer should not be
>required to know the internals of the compiler.

"String interpolation is a form of concatenation."  I'm sure it
says that somewhere.

--tom

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