From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-07-24T05:52:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax "surprise"

Hi --

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Jim Menard wrote:

> Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:46:37AM +0900, Mike Hall wrote:
> > >   - compile time string concatenation, "hello" "world" => "helloworld"
> > >
> > > I know that some other popular languages like to do that,
> > > but I think it would be better to leave it as two arguments.
> > > After all, someone wrote those two literals separately on purpose.
> >
> > The following is a common idiom:
> >
> >   foo("this is a really long string.  in fact, it is so long " \
> >       "that I have to wrap onto multiple lines.")
>
> or
>
>     foo("this is short\
> and so is this")
>
> The string would include the newline.

I don't think that's the case in either of these examples -- only if
you do:

  foo("this is
a string")


David

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