• palordrolap@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    You’re right. I’ve got too much Perl on the brain and forgot my roots. There is a language that does what you’re talking about with the ‘+’ operator: BASIC

    Good luck getting the same thing retrofitted into JavaScript though. I can imagine a large number of websites would break or develop mysterious problems if this (mis)behaviour was fixed.

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I don’t think there’s a way to retrofit JS - but php versions are deprecated all the time. Why not do the same with client-side script versions? :)