From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-09-17T04:49:30+09:00
Subject: Re: comments and continuing strings on the next line

Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:

> foo =
> "this is a string " \
> "that is continued on a second line"

> foo =
> "this is a string " + # this is a comment
> "that is continued on a second line"
> 
> but that is slightly different from the original example.  Any ideas?


I'm not sure it _is_ different. I believe Ruby folds adjacent constant
strings at compile-time.

Cheers


Dave