This may or may not be related to Dave's post, but I just remembered
why I don't like a dual-natured +. I'm sorry if this was gone through
before.
Consider the following...
sub foo { $_[0] + $_[1] }
What do the following return?
foo(1,1); obviously 2
foo(
I have lurked for several months now, and find that I can hold my tongue
no longer. The 'discussion' of overloading '+', to include concatenation,
suffers from a general degeneration into implementation details, where
linguistic sentiment should reign.
The contention that '+' should be overload
