From: pachl <clintpachl@...>
Date: 2008-02-20T09:35:14+09:00
Subject: Re: String Concatenation and Implicit Object Creation

On Feb 19, 4:45 pm, Tim Hunter <TimHun...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 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".

Of course it does, that's not my question.

Anyway, going off your reply, how many strings does the following
create?

s1 = 'asdf' 'qwer'