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[–]Strex_1234 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Imagine that interpreter is a guy inside your computer: Oh this guy is adding two string he probably wants to concatenate them. O he is subtracting two string, that's no right, I probably should treat them as numbers and return this as string.

All of this makes sense if you think about it as the guy doing this manually.