On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:24 AM, David Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interestingly, BASIC has gone the other direction -- > at least, Visual BASIC uses + for addition and & for concatenation; > I'm guessing this happened when VB got "variant" types that could hold > either numbers or strings.
Actually, VisualBASIC (at least as of VB.NET/2008) still has "+" for concatenation, too. & is preferred because of the complex set of rules that determine when + does conversions and when it doesn't (for instance, adding a stringish Object to a numeric Object wll in some cases convert the string to a number and add instead of concatenating!), but + still works. -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
