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The DSL I'm currently hacking around on has ++ for string (and list) concatenation and using a -seperate- operator seems to rather help.

(I've yet to conclude if stealing ++ for this rather than preinc/postinc was a terrible mistake, so far in context it hasn't seemed to be but I'm still keeping an eye on the question)

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Perl uses ~ for string concatenation.

Nothing says that you cannot use both infix "++" for concatenation and unary ++ for increment. "-" is both a unary prefix and binary infix operator, for example.

Perl uses '.' for string concatenation.

Nothing says that I can't do that but in context of deliberately -not- re-using operators for completely different things it would seem rather self-defeating.

Oof, you're right. I was thinking of Raku.

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