Re: Sane "+" string concat proposal

[Dan Brian]

> | Under what I originally posted:
> | 
> |    $a += "$b";    # string
> |    $a += $b;      # numeric
> 
> You still haven't given a good explanation of
> 
> $a += sub();    # is it a string or a number?

The quotes don't work. Anything but the most basic statement introduces
way more ambiguity than we should be comfortable with. And the idea that
<" +> should be interpreted by the parser as an op, well, doesn't work. At
all.