From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-09-17T05:12:11+09:00
Subject: Re: comments and continuing strings on the next line

Hi,

I don't know whether it is different, but it seems this format also works,
although with more punctuations:

foo = %Q!\
this is a string #{#some comment}\
that is continued on a second line
!

Regards,

Bill
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Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> wrote:
> I have a tendency to write:

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

> I'd like to write:

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

> but this doesn't work (I only get the second part of the string and the
> first part is ignored).  And:

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

> is a syntax error.

> I could write:

> 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?

> Paul