Re: Arithmetic on strings

[Dimitris Papavasiliou <dpapavas@...>]

> It seems a strange JavaScript-like thing in an otherwise sensible language.

And this is made worse by the fact that, as a special case, the actual
value itself is changed which can bite you in so many ways, table
iteration being one of them.  This is all documented in the manual of
course but you still have to constantly watch out for it as it is a
side-effect that can easily go unnoticed.