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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: renaming Interfaces.Java.Ada_To_Java_String to the + operator
Date: 1998/01/13
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Tom Moran wrote:
> 
> What does
> +"abc"&"xyz"
> mean, and, more importantly, how many people know without having to
> look it up?

Oops, I forgot to think about operator precedence in my first post (I
see now that is the point of Tom's post :(.

This means:

convert "abc" to some other type, then concatenate "xyz"

The responsible package author will overload "&" as well as "+", to
handle this correctly, as the reader's first impulse expects :).

-- 
- Stephe