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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Java blunders
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:27:59 -0400
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On 7/26/2014 4:11 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:06:28 -0700, Roedy Green wrote:
>
>> If we did get a distinct concatenation operator, what would it be?
>>
> Perl and PHP use . as the string concatenation operator. It seems as good
> as any to me:
>
> $ perl -e 'print "My cat " . "sat on" . " the mat.\n";'
> My cat sat on the mat.
> $

     I like it!  Let's see:

	if (clownName.equals("Bozo")) ...

     (Oops!)

     As Clemenceau didn't quite say: "What?  Must every little
operation have its own glyph?"

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