+ concatenates strings but not numbers kotlinlang #announcements

+ concatenates strings, but not numbers

Hullaballoonatic

11/29/2018, 11:11 PM

+ concatenates strings, but not numbers

bdawg.io

11/30/2018, 3:34 AM

That’s intentional because it’s a strongly-typed language

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val a = 1
val b = 1
"$a$b" == "11"

bdawg.io

11/30/2018, 3:36 AM

The difference also is operators are designed to be overloaded. There’s no overloading in a niche operator that always performs string concatenation

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