>>Despite the craziness above, and the explicit rejection of Perl’s pairs of string and numeric operators, PHP does not overload +. + is always addition, and .

>>Despite the craziness above, and the explicit rejection of Perl’s pairs of string and numeric operators, PHP does not overload +. + is always addition, and . is always concatenation. I like the fact that + is for addition and . is for concat. It's kind of up in the air if you do "1" + 1, does it become a string? Or an integer?