From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-02-19T23:07:38+09:00
Subject: Re: strings combine

2010/2/19 Raul Jara <raul.c.jara@gmail.com>:
> This doesn't work if you assign the strings to variables though:
>
> 'hi ' 'there'
> =>"hi there"
>
> hi = 'hi '
> there = 'there'
> hi there
> NoMethodError: undefined method `hi' for main:Object
>  from (irb):9
>  from /opt/local/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
>
>
> Which is a little counter intuitive.

Not for me.  The concatenation is done at parse time.  Your
"whitespace concatenation" is done at runtime.

Kind regards

robert

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