From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2008-02-20T10:04:18+09:00
Subject: Re: String Concatenation and Implicit Object Creation

pachl wrote:
> 
> Of course it does, that's not my question.
> 
> Anyway, going off your reply, how many strings does the following
> create?
> 
> s1 = 'asdf' 'qwer'
> 

Son-of-a-gun! Ruby *does* concatenate adjacent string literals. I learn 
something every day.

My new copy of _The_Ruby_Programming_Language_ says that Ruby 
concatenates adjacent string literals during the parsing process. That 
makes me think that there's only 1 string created, "asdfqwer".

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