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[โ€“] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 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? :)