[ruby-talk:00567] New feature request! :-)

Hi,

I have missed on feature of the Python parser since all the time I use
Ruby. Today I miss it again, so I want to propose its introducing.

	In Python, if I have to strings in the source, that comes one
	after the other, only separated by whitespaces, they will
	concatenated together by the parser. Some example:

		a = "Hello" "World"

	would become

		a = "HelloWorld"

	as
		a = "Hello"
		    "World"

	would too.

	That could be necessary if I have to concatenate very long
	strings together on runtime, because they only don't fit into 
	a source code line. For example:

		raise TypeError, "This is a very long string that " + 	
		     "doesn't fit very well on a single source line"

	Here I need the concatenation only, as the string is too long.
	That results in unecessary runtime penalties. After introducing
	that feature we could write:

		raise TypeError, "This is a very long string that " 	
		     "doesn't fit very well on a single source line"

	The parser would handle these as *one* long string. No
	performance penalties during runtime.

What do you think about?

\cle