Feature request: Path append operators for strings

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Fri Jul 5 13:39:26 PDT 2013


On Friday, July 05, 2013 22:34:57 Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 07/05/2013 10:34 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> > On 07/05/2013 10:09 PM, Namespace wrote:
> >>> Unary ~ is bitwise not in Java and D, and he is referring to binary
> >>> usage.
> >>> 
> >>> [...] use ~ for _any_ purpose.
> >> 
> >> I'd expected that *any* really means *any* and do not refer to binary.
> > 
> > Yes. Neither do 'use', 'for' and 'purpose'. Establishing that it is
> > likely that ~ is referring to binary requires some more context (eg. it
> > is likely that the two usages of ~ in his post refer to the same thing),
> > common sense or the assumption that Jonathan probably knows about the
> > unary usage. (Parsing natural language is quite hard though, so I could
> > be wrong.)
> 
> Turns out I was wrong. :o)

Yeah, well. It doesn't hurt my feelings any if you're erring on the side of 
thinking that I know what I'm talking about. :)

And I'm certain that I've seen the unary usage of ~ before. I just couldn't 
think of it when I posted today. I really need more sleep...

- Jonathan M Davis


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