Feature request: Path append operators for strings

[John Colvin]

On Tuesday, 9 July 2013 at 10:38:11 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> ... nor does it mean that personhood is not a very useful and 
>> meaningful construct.
>
> Even worse, now you use "personhood" as a replacement for 
> self-awareness! :) It is a very dangerous mistake to use common 
> words when speaking about consciousness and thinking - too much 
> self-reflection involved.

You're looking at it in the wrong context. Walter was talking 
about personhood as an analogy, not at all conflating it with 
self-awareness.

I agree 100% about the language point. By and large our languages 
(and language abilities) have evolved to identify and communicate 
day-to-day opportunities and risks.
They are very specialised DSLs running on very specialised 
hardware, not well suited to performing complex runtime 
introspection or large-scale formal logic :p

Interestingly, it doesn't take a huge change in design to unleash 
some very different abilities, e.g. autistic savants.