From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2010-02-20T04:27:40+09:00
Subject: Re: strings combine


> I think you misunderstand what I was saying.  I was not asking what the 
> differences between the parser and the runtime are.  I was asking for a 
> rationale.  If Matz believed that strings, when placed together without 
> any punctuation between them should be concatenated, why didn't he make 
> it standard operating behavior?  I can't imagine it would have been so 
> difficult for when the parser sees two variables in a row to treat it as 
> equivalent to a concatenation call on the first variable with the second 
> variable as an argument.  If Matz didn't think that two strings should 
> be concatenated, why program that behavior into the parser?

Yeah it ends up being pretty hard to generate a parser that will do 
both.
-rp
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