From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 1999-08-06T18:02:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:00569] Re: New feature request! :-)


In message "[ruby-talk:00567] New feature request! :-)"
    on 99/08/06, clemens.hintze@alcatel.de <clemens.hintze@alcatel.de> writes:

|	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.

I think the last one reqiures the backslash at the end of line.

e.g.
|		a = "Hello"\
|		    "World"

I can tell that now you are really using Ruby all the time. ;-)

Anyway, my idea concerning this issue are:

  * Ruby requires the backslash at the end of line too, which is very
    ugly, methink. 

  * String concatenation is not that heavy unless it appears in inner
    most loop.

  * How about using here-document?  Like:

		raise TypeError, <<EOS
This is a very long string that doesn't fit very well on a single source line
EOS
                                                        matz.