Sorry. I don't know if you are saying that you won't be able to concatenate strings without operators, or if you choose a language just because it allows you to use a "a = b + c" form with strings.

For the first case, of course you can create something like:

    str1.append(str2);

For the second... I don't know what to say.

> framing it as a personal preference

But follow my logic for a moment: if "str3 = str1 + str2" concatenates a string, what "str3 = str1 - str2" should do?

(Yes I know there is no minus operator for std::string)

And "str3 = str1 * str2"?

And "str3 = str1 % str2"?