> For once, I agree with Bearophile. The adjacent string concatenation was a > very > very early feature, and the ~ completely supplants it. While I don't think it > causes many problems, it's a pointless redundancy and should be removed.
Agreed; it seems to be a minor change, and the issue of code compatibility is a guenine one, the later such changes are done, the more code breakage occurs. So receive my humble +1 :) -- Auria