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Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by JoshuaScholar on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @08:08AM (#9811300)
In Lua "3"+4 is an error. Concatenation is a different operator than add, specifically to avoid confusing coersions.
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Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by ggilles on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @08:35AM (#9811407)
Try it:

    Lua 5.1.5  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
    > ="3" + 4
    7
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Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by JoshuaScholar on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @08:42AM (#9811451)
Ah. Well at least there isn't a confusion between add and concat

"3"+4 is 7 4.."3" is "43"

"3hello"+4 is an error

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