From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-05-21T22:48:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Memory consumption.

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:28:17PM +0900, Yohanes Santoso wrote:
> That means you have to be careful not to do too much
> a = "foo" + "bar"
> instead
> a = "#{foo}#{bar}"

This isn't quite the same thing.  One is:
  a = "foo" + "bar" #=> a == "foobar"

the other is:
  a = foo + bar #=> a == ?

I think that:
  a = "foo" "bar"

and
  a = "foo" \
      "bar"

also avoid the intermediate objects, though, if the former is really
what you meant.

It's interesting to see how the Pragmatic Programmers' node dumper
prints each of these:

  [pbrannan@zaphod pbrannan]$ ruby -rNodeDump -e '"foo" + "bar"'
  NodeDump V0.1.4

  NODE_NEWLINE:  [-e:1]
    NODE_CALL:  to method: 43 (+)
    Receiver:
      NODE_STR:  "foo"
      Parameters:
        NODE_ARRAY:  size = 1
          NODE_STR:  "bar"

  [pbrannan@zaphod pbrannan]$ ruby -rNodeDump -e '"#{foo}#{bar}"'
  NodeDump V0.1.4

  NODE_NEWLINE:  [-e:1]
    NODE_DSTR: ""
        NODE_EVSTR: "foo"
        NODE_EVSTR: "bar"

  [pbrannan@zaphod pbrannan]$ ruby -rNodeDump -e 'foo + bar'
  NodeDump V0.1.4

  NODE_NEWLINE:  [-e:1]
    NODE_CALL:  to method: 43 (+)
    Receiver:
      NODE_VCALL:  self.foo
      Parameters:
        NODE_ARRAY:  size = 1
          NODE_VCALL:  self.bar

  [pbrannan@zaphod pbrannan]$ ruby -rNodeDump -e '"foo" "bar"'
  NodeDump V0.1.4

  NODE_NEWLINE:  [-e:1]
    NODE_STR:  "foobar"

Paul