Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract?
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
From : Steve O'Hara-Smith
Date : Fri Aug 12 2005 08:36 am

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:42:30 -0700
rem642b@Yahoo.Com (Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote:

> strings whose characters all happen to be digits
> at the moment and actual numeric values, so a+b could either add or
> concatenate depending on what characters happen to be in the two
> strings at the moment.

	Perl doesn't do that, a+b will always add and a.b will always
concatenate. If there are no leading digits in the string it turns to 0
for the adding.

perl -e 'print "fred" + "jim"';
0

perl -e 'print "fred" . "jim"';
fredjim

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