From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2002-07-25T03:28:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax "surprise"

Paul Brannan wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 07:19:15AM +0900, Charles Hixson wrote:
>  
>
>>               foo("this is a really long string.  in fact, it is so 
>>long \n"
>>                   + " that I have to wrap onto multiple lines.")
>>    
>>
>
>Note that this is not legal in Ruby.  The + must go at the end of the
>first line.
>
>Also note that the original string did not contain a \n.
>
>Paul
>  
>
My assertion was not that it was currently legal Ruby, but rather that I 
would find it a compatible syntax.  I understand that the syntax parser 
would not like it.  And the original line that I was mimicing did not 
only not contain a \n, it also did not contain a close quote.

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