From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T00:14:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

Agreed.  Until now, I still mistakenly use the "." operator from time to
time in Ruby, just because of the previous Perl experience, which was
very natural.

Regards,

Bill
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David.Stagner@mpls.frb.org wrote:
> I think Gavin is right... we don't "add" strings, we concatenate them. 
> Using the + operator to mean "concatenate" violates our eighth grade 
> algebra sensibilities.  It's, um, surprising. 

> Note that the often-awkward Perl uses . as a string concatenation 
> operator, not +.  This is one of the things Perl got right and Ruby got 
> wrong, imho.