Concatenative

A concatenative structure is a structure that is valid after placing values one after the other.

For example, strings are concatenative, using the . dot operator. On the other hand, JSON is not concatenative, as two JSON strings placed one after the other does not create a valid JSON (although, it is still a string).

There are concatenative programming languages, and natural languages.

<?php

$fullName = 'John' . ' ' . 'Doe';

?>

See also Concatenative Programming Language and Concatenative Morphology.

Related : Concatenation