[Grace-core] Fwd: Query on built-in objects

James Noble kjx at ecs.vuw.ac.nz
Tue Jun 19 00:34:29 PDT 2012


purely my take: 

> 1) Should ++ be defined on non-sequences? People are saying no.

no.  another question is whether we should overload "+" 
I think the consensus there is no too.

> 2) Should String.++ invoke asString? I'm not sure anyone has said
> anything directly on that here, but there have been mixed views in the
> past, and there is interpolation.

I think "no".
I'm pretty sure I never use ++ on non-sequences (in fact on non-strings)

J


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