Come now, that's a disingenuous take. I explicitly mentioned that some symbols make sense while others don't. Obviously the + sign is pretty universally known f

Come now, that's a disingenuous take. I explicitly mentioned that some symbols make sense while others don't. Obviously the + sign is pretty universally known for addition. Overloading + for string concatenation was probably a more intuitive option than PHP's . concatenation operator. But not every symbol is as ubiquitous as the plus sign.