Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.