Kill implicit joining of adjacent strings
Don
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Thu Nov 11 04:36:14 PST 2010
Manfred_Nowak wrote:
> Don wrote:
>
>> that's the only thing that is missing
>
> Disagreed.
>
> One of the main points of all languages is to emphasize ones aim,
> espacially if there is a chance of misinterpretation because of the
> language.
>
> Example: there is only a tiny change in the characters from `31415' to `
> 3.1415'. Without function overloading this can be detected in D, because
> the type of actual parameters changes and Walter dismissed automatic type
> changes from `real' to `int'.
>
> The situation the OP described sams quite similar to me.
> -manfred
I was replying to Rainer, not to the OP.
At present in the compiler there is no difference between "a" "b" and
"a" ~ "b". So implicit joining could be disallowed with loss of
functionality. But that fact isn't clear from the docs.
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