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It is a convention, not a rule, in mathematics to use (+) to represent operations that are commutative (i.e. abelian) groups. But this convention is not at all
by aratakareigen 7y ago
It is a convention, not a rule, in mathematics to use (+) to represent operations that are commutative (i.e. abelian) groups.
But this convention is not at all respected in programming (e.g. + for string concatenation in many languages) so I have to admit that it's pretty irrelevant.
- NoodleIncident 7y agoThe war to keep programming operators at all consistent with mathematics was lost long ago, with `=` and `==` being the worst offenders.
- nemetroid 7y agoTo be fair, mathematics uses = to indicate assignment as well, e.g. for summation limits.