[SOLVED] DSRN (dog slow roman numerals)

[Thomas Klemm]

(06-15-2014 06:48 PM)Claudio L. Wrote:  What would be a down side in your opinion?

I have a problem with overloading + for operations that violate basic rules of addition.
In the case of string concatenation it is the commutative property: "a" + "b" ≠ "b" + "a"
For this operation another symbol should be used: . or ~ or ++ or whatever.

It's the same with concatenating lists. But it gets worse with the "addition" of an element to a list.
Why is { 1 2 3 } + 4 = { 1 2 3 4 } but { 5 6 7 } - 4 = { 1 2 3 }?
But then 4 + { 1 2 3 } = { 5 6 7 }.
And if you really want to add a number to each element you have to use ADD: { 1 2 3 } ADD 4 = { 5 6 7 }
I still think this was the worst decision when designing RPL.

Cheers
Thomas