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Re:Examples of Incorrect Abstractions in Other Languages by tsegratis on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @07:24AM (#23245578)
Agreed, but seems haskell also fails to keep commutativity here tho?

Concatenation is not addition in my opinion

I've often wanted something like bits++bits concatenation to work in the same way for numbers as for strings

Re:Examples of Incorrect Abstractions in Other Languages by throwaway_pdp09 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:08AM (#23245871)
> Concatenation is not addition in my opinion

For python, syntactically it is. In a general sense, an operation is what you define it to be. Just my opinion.