From: Chris <chris@...>
Date: 2002-04-03T11:34:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, python, perl, ...

In article <3813.198.133.202.18.1017778936.squirrel@12.27.88.122>,
 "Jason Voegele" <jason@jvoegele.com> wrote:

> >> Sorry for my lack of knowledge in Python. How does Python achive the
> >> #{whatever}? Is the mechanism so bizarre?
> > 
> > It's not bizzare, but Python, to the best of my knowledge, just 
> > doesn'tdo this.  But Python has the """ token, so it's a fair trade. 
> > :-)
> 
> Ruby has that too...try it out. :)

When I try this(in irb), the behavior that seems to actually be 
happening is that:

puts "hello"  " "  "world"

# prints out "hello world\n"

So that something like:

"""hello world"""

is really being seen as 

"" + "hello world" + ""