From: jjenning@... (jared l. jennings)
Date: 2001-07-27T02:36:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18581] Re: ruby versus Perl Magic

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:36:15AM +0900, Michael Witrant wrote:
> You might need another operator (or method) to concat strings. Then you
> could have '+' to only add elements in the numeric way. But that's
> incompatible with other ruby scripts.

Yes, that's how Perl does it: + is addition, . is string
concatenation. You can't have objects without using references (am i
right here?) so if you're using objects, you always use -> instead of . -
that's how objects & concatenation don't conflict in Perl.

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