Can't add / '+' a string and an int about ethereal HOT 15 CLOSED

no it doesn't convert to string implicitly, to do that u will have to convert int to string first and then u can concat them.
to convert int to string, u can do the following:

5.to_str()

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Shouldn't it happen automatically though? At least most other langs do.

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Think it would be pretty easy to add the + operator in the str module. I can do it now if you want.

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Can't figure out how to do it lol. Leaving it for now.

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Well, it's ok. I shall perhaps do it. Although I do feel it to be not too useful

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to_str() converts any type to string so it should be just fine, although i can make a short hand style for it maybe.
how about something like...
str( /* anything */ )?

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Yeah maybe.

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Also I have a weird bug.

I have this script:

println( 'height: ' + term.height.to_str() );

But it errors out when I run it with:

mod_term.et 11[20]: error: function with name '+' and arg count 2 (str, str) does not exist
println( 'width: ' + term.width.to_str() );

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I reverted all my changes to do with operators and strings fyi.

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Did you import str;? Also, for println, you can just pass all arguments using comma separation instead of manually concatenating the strings.

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Oh haha, I didn't import it. Thanks for the tip as well.

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No problem :)
I wonder if I should just add the string concatenation, append, and comparison functions in the core module...

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Starting work on it again now.

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okay, good luck

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I think I will not let a string and any other type be added directly. This is because someone may accidentally concatenate two variables if they don't know one of them is string (which is entirely possible due to the dynamically typed nature of the language).
I shall consider more on this, but for now, I'll close this issue. Thanks! :)

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