From: Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@...>
Date: 2002-04-03T18:46:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, python, perl, ...


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Chris wrote:

> puts "hello"  " "  "world"
> 
> # prints out "hello world\n"

This is just a case of ruby concatenating adjacent literal strings at parse
time.

irb(main):001:0> concat = "See: " "this" ' gets concatenated ' 'perfectly'
"See: this gets concatenated perfectly"
irb(main):002:0> error = "error"
"error"
irb(main):003:0> problem = "This causes an " error
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):3: parse error
        from (irb):3

 -- Nikodemus