[prev] [thread] [next] [lurker] [Date index for 2006/11/05]
* Tony Finch <dot@xxxxx.xx> [2006-11-05 18:55]: > Of course Perl uses x to multiply strings and * to multiply > numbers. Yay for non-polymorphic operators! Even more fun in > O'Caml where integer arithmetic is + - * / and floating point > arithmetic is +. -. *. /. . Yeah, because it's obviously better when a + b can do two different things depending on the types of the values, resulting in things like 1 + 2 + " bottles" producing a semantically different result from "Bottles: " + 1 + 2 as in Javascript. Clearly, having to write "" + a + b is better than having to write a . b Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>There's stuff above here
Generated at 20:01 on 07 Nov 2006 by mariachi 0.52