From: Robert Church Date: 2003-11-07T08:10:16+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 21637-21729 On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:57:32AM +0900, Paul Brannan quipped: > > How about > > > > s = "this is a string " + > > "that I have chosen to break " + > > "into multiple lines" > > This works, but the concatenation is done at run-time instead of at > compile-time. Or so you assume. I don't know how Matz will handle this, but there's no reason concatenation of string constants could not be done at compile time.