Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>> I'd rather write
>>
>>   strb <-- stra + stru + " more stuff"
>>
>> than
>>
>>   strb <-- StringConcatenate(stra, stru, " more stuff");
>
> So do I, but I fail to understand why this requires that the string
> handling is built into the compiler.
>
> Your preferred syntax looks (in principle) quite similar to the C++
> std::string syntax, where normal string handling is implemented in a
> standard library.

First, that only works when a language allows user defined operators like
C++ does, but most other compiled languages don't.  Even then, the compiler
only knows that some library routine has to be called to perform whatever
the operation is.  It doesn't know it's string concatenation and therefore
doesn't know as much about the intent of the statement as it would if it was
built in.


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