From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2008-02-20T08:45:48+09:00
Subject: Re: String Concatenation and Implicit Object Creation

pachl wrote:
> Do adjacent strings or strings separated by backslash and a newline
> create multiple String objects?
> 
> For example:
> 
> s1 = 'asdf' 'qwer'
> 
> s2 = 'asdf'\
>     'qwer'
> 
> I don't know how to figure this out, but I ran benchmarks and compared
> against '<<' and '+' and it looks like each example above only creates
> a single String object. What's really happening?
> 
> -pachl
> 

The string concatenation method is "+"

s1 = "asdf" + "qwer"

This creates 3 string objects, "asdf", "qwer", and "asdfqwer".

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