Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Max Samukha via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 26 July 2015 at 23:29:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

> For example, the '+' operator. Rust traits sez "gee, there's a 
> + operator, it's good to go. Ship it!" Meanwhile, you thought 
> the function was summing some data, when it actually is 
> creating a giant string, or whatever idiot thing someone 
> decided to use '+' for.

Number addition and string concatenation are monoid operations. 
In this light, '+' for both makes perfect sense.