Agree, I even think there *could* be some utility in having the opposite behavior (but I'm not even sure about that) :
(+ "1" 2) --> 3 by + trying to cast its non numeric arguments before throwing an exception ... -- Laurent 2009/2/26 Allen Rohner <aroh...@gmail.com> > > > > > > So my vote is that String are atomic built in objects, and at least +, < > > and > should work with Strings. The behavior should be just like Java, > > so (+ "foo" 2) --> "foo2" > > > > -1 > > Concatenation is not addition. I'm almost opposed to numeric operators > all together. If we wrote (add 2 3), there would be no confusion at > all about what (add "foo" 2) should do, because you'd be writing (conj > "foo" (str 2)) > > If addition between a string and number is defined, what is > subtraction between a string and a number? > > Allen > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
