<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Not necessarily, Robert. To me, it's like grinding my teeth with sandpaper when I have to use mathematical operators on strings. + = -<br clear="none">
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Oh there are too many languages that do this to us, and then afterward some really stellar ones will follow up that poke in the eye with another. I'm talking about the ones that proudly don't support string interpolation. This makes the first problem worse. How? Let's see. As an example we'll play every browser's favorite game: "adding strings and variables"...<br clear="none">
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greet( "Hello, there " + visitor.fname + ". My name is " + me.fname + " " + me.lname + "." )<br clear="none">
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Hi there viewers. I'm not sure who won. I'm not sure anybody won. But the I'm feeling good about tonight's game. Not one semicolon. No sigils either! If you want to avoid unnecessary punctuation, this is the way! Back over to you, Tommy. <br clear="none">
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Thanks Bob for that hard hitting review. I agree that this is the way we should be programming...like it's 1999. What a time to be alive. Yep. You've won me over now <a href="http://lang.name">lang.name</a>. 《/sarcasm》<br clear="none">
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Using "incorrect" operators for a given datatype. That's what I dislike. And then forcing me to do it hundreds of times in a simple program because there's no interpolation support is what I strongly dislike. <br clear="none">
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Patrick, I like tilde for string concat. Heck I love it. And if Perl didn't already wasted the underscore for numeric notation lipstick, I'd go for that too.<br clear="none">
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Thanks for watching tonight's episode of "My Issues, Grab Some Tissues". This is your host, Tommy Butler signing off. Have a good night ladies and gentlemen.<br clear="none">
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...is this thing still on? I wonder if Patrick noticed my《french》sarcasm...<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 11, 2014, Robert Flach <robert.flach@webtooldeveloper.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I think he meant to say any language
that doesn't let him use "." as the concatenation operator (a
sentiment which I have some sympathy with), personally if I were
in the perl6 world, I have a feeling I'd go with the join syntax
over having to use ~ for string concat (e.g. say ["this"," that","
and the other"].join;) but I'm not sure... it is a lot more typing
and feels less perlish (though so does not having dot for the
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On 9/11/2014 4:19 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:<br clear="none">
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<pre wrap="">Any language that makes me use a plus sign for string concat... *ducks*
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Which language would that be? ;-)
Perl 6 uses the tilde for concatenation, and as a string contextualizer:
say "hello" ~ " world";
my $a = ~(3*5+7); # sets $a to string "22"
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