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On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 5:30 AM Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote: > At the moment its reasonably clear that where you explicitly use the '.' > operator (and double-quoted strings, which are syntactic sugar for > concatenation) you should expect concat overloading to be honoured. [...] > > We should keep a clear distinction between: > > concat operator '.' appears in the source code > > and > > perl concatenates two strings for some reason. To me "" seems like the latter, not the former. This is probably documented somewhere but I find it surprising that "$foo" calls concat overloading on $foo before string overloading. Anyway... my concern with changing this is the performance implications Dave mentioned, and also what problems this change in behaviour might introduce to existing code. We can test CPAN for that but not DARKPAN. -- Matthew Horsfall (alh)Thread Previous | Thread Next