From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-10T23:35:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

Hello --

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, nico wrote:

> On September 10, 2002 04:38 am, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>
> > I'm not convinced that it's unnatural.  We don't know the types of a and
> > b, and for some objects a and b, a + b != b + a.
> >
> > I'm interested what you think the alternative is, or an argument against
> > the above, and how you would like to see a + b defined in Ruby.
> >
> > Gavin
>
> I find that highly unnatural because we've been learning since grade school
> that a + b = b + a.
>
> If the objects don't satisfy that property they should be using a different
> symbol.

On the other hand, in grade school you probably weren't adding
strings.


David

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