On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 2:17:25 PM UTC-5, Samuel Colvin wrote: > > There's no method +(s1::String, s2::String) instead string concatenation > has to be done with > > a="hello "*"world > > This is pretty unusual and unintuitive, so I'm guessing there a really > good reason for it? >
There's a theoretical motivation, which I'm no good at explaining, but it does generalize nicely: "hello, "^3 == "hello, hello, hello, " You can search the list (and I think also Github issues) a bit for Stefan's deeper explanations on the topic.
