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<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
concat operator :P.<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">Robert Flach<br>
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On 9/11/2014 4:19 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 03:29:38PM -0500, Tommy Butler wrote:
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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"
Pm
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