C++

[Lucas Goss]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Lucas Goss wrote:
>> Is there any benefit to having a separate symbol for adding (ok, 
>> concatenating)? If not feel free to break the language here too.
> 
> Concatenation is quite different from addition:
> 
> int[3] a = [1,2,3];
> int[3] b = [4,5,6];
> 
> int[] c = a + b;    // c[] = [5,7,9]
> int[] d = a ~ b;    // d[] = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
> 
> Two distinct operators are necessary.

Ah, thanks! That makes sense.

Lucas