On Friday, 5 July 2013 at 18:18:14 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
It doesn't necessarily have to be ~, as long as it's something other than + (or any other numerical binary operator). Perl uses '.', but in D's case, that would be a bad idea, since you'd have ambiguity in:
Perl is my day job and I've come to strongly dislike the period for concatenation. IMO, that the tilde is nice and visible is a strong UX argument in its favour. Periods get used at the end of every sentence.
Full stop. :P -Wyatt