On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 06:52:41 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 08/02/2015 09:02 PM, Max Samukha wrote:
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.
'+' is usually used to denote the operation of an abelian group.
The point is that '+' for string concatenation is no more of an
'idiot thing' than '~'.
