From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2008-10-02T11:50:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19100] Re: Request For Removal: No Operator Concatenation

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Jim Hranicky <jfh@ufl.edu> wrote:
> Gregory Brown wrote:
>> At least there is some reason behind this feature.  But is it being
>> used in practice anywhere?
>>
>> I've never seen it.
>
> Maybe just a leftover from C ?
> ---------------
>    printf("this is a very "
>            "long string "
>            "so I'm cutting it up "
>            "like so\n");

Earlier this week, I was wishing that Ruby had C-style string
continuation.  I think I ended up with something like:
    "this is a very " <<
    "long string."

But, I think I would have preferred:
    "" \
    ""