On 08/26/11 16:24, Mark Thomas wrote:
> On 26/08/2011 23:53, Kin-man Chung wrote:
>
>> I've written something for the concatenation and assignment operators in
>> the wiki
>>
>> http://java.net/projects/el-spec/pages/Operators.
>>
>> These two are important operators that were somehow omitted in the
>> current EL. I'd like to include them in this JSR, since they are
>> obviously needed, especially in a stand-alone environment.
>>
>> It is hard to imagine an expression language without a concatenation
>> operator. The current EL gets by with composite expressions. But
>> composite expressions are restricted to the root level expressions (for
>> instance, it cannot be used as method arguments). Moreover, with
>> automatic bracketing of expressions, concatenation operator is a must.
>>
>> I've pick # as the concatenation operator. I wish I can use +, but I
>> can't, because it is an arithmetic add, even for string operands.
>>
> That is a pain. Is # used as the concatenation operator in any other
> languages? Might there be an operator that we could reuse that looks
> more natural? Possibilities that come to mind:
> +=
> || (already used in EL - can't use it)
> &
>
>
I like &. How about
++
!
Kin-man
> Mark
>