Re: My scripting language - any suggestions?

On Sep 4, 1:59 pm, lican <lica...@gmail.com> wrote:
> a = 100.0
> s = "string text";
> d = s + a; // d == "string text100.0"


Personally, I'd prefer a different operator for string concatenations
(like D's "~"). That way you can prevent the following code from
misbehaving:


print("The round is: " + round + 1);


Instead of calculating round + 1 first, round is translated into a
string and 1 is translated into a string, which obviously gives wrong
results. Of course one can put parentheses around round + 1, but this
kind of bug is pretty much a newbie-trap and this can be avoided with:


print("The round is: " ~ round + 1);


Just make the priority of ~ low enough that it is called last before =
and everything should sort itself out.

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