Kill implicit joining of adjacent strings

Don nospam at nospam.com
Fri Nov 12 01:06:31 PST 2010


Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 11/11/10 5:59 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Let me ask a related question: if there were a priority list of things
>>> that Walter should be busy with, where would this feature be on that
>>> list?
>>
>> For once, I agree with Bearophile. The adjacent string concatenation was
>> a very very early feature, and the ~ completely supplants it. While I
>> don't think it causes many problems, it's a pointless redundancy and
>> should be removed.
> 
> I agree too but there are many similarly good ideas (some of which from 
> himself) that are older.
> 
> Andrei

This isn't new. I remember this one being discussed about seven years ago.


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