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On 7/27/2014 12:13 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 20:11:24 +0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
> <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
> someone who said :
>
>> Perl and PHP use . as the string concatenation operator. It seems as good
>> as any to me:
>
> I wonder if . would conflict with its use in qualification.

class Foo {
   String name;

   public static void bar(String name) {
     Foo baz = new Foo();
     System.out.println(baz.name);
   }
}

Is that code stringifying baz and concatenating the result to the name 
parameter, or is it retrieving the name field of baz? How would you 
access the other variant?

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth