> string concatenation should have its own operator,

It does: |

That character was put in ASCII specifically for concatenation in PL/1.

Then came C.

D (as always) is clever: the operator is ~ So no confusion between addition and concatenation and you can keep | for or.

Question, does that work with other types? Say you have two u16 values, can you concatenate them together with ~ into a u32 without any shifting?

	▲	nicwilson 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It works with arrays (both fixed size, and dynamically sized) and arrays; between arrays and elements; but not between two scalar types that don't overload opBinary!"~", so no it won't work between two `ushorts` to produce a `uint`
	▲	renox 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No, it doesn't. But I'm not sure that this matter, a sufficiently "smart" compiler understand that this is the same thing.