On Sunday, 2 April 2017 at 10:55:22 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
a ~ "abc" "def";
If the order is important, make it `a ~ ("abc" ~ "def")` instead. I'd argue that with concatenation usually being left-associative, clearly stating the intention to evaluate the side first would be a good idea anyway.
But even if you didn't agree with this line of thought, wouldn't having to add a pair of parentheses here and there be a small price to pay for avoiding a very real source of bugs? Or are you just worried about the deprecation message leading people into inadvertently introducing a behaviour change when they just mechanically applied the fix to the code?
— David
