In our previous episode, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal said: > > not exist, if FreePascal had gone another direction like PL/1, for > > example, > > where the string concatenation operator is || > > (and DB2, and - probably - other SQL dialects). > > > > FPC inherited the +-operator for concatenation from the base language: > Pascal. So there simply was no other route to take (not that anyone would > have thought to take a different route).
Well, + is also addition in pascal. It depends on what is considered more important, the fact that array of integer has a base type that suppers adding, or the simularity with strings(that are also dynamic array like) that uses it for concat. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
