From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-11-06T15:12:22-08:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 21637-21729

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Robert Church (rc@pgdn.org) wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:57:32AM +0900, Paul Brannan quipped:
> > > How about
> > >=20
> > >   s =3D "this is a string " +
> > >       "that I have chosen to break " +
> > >       "into multiple lines"
> >=20
> > This works, but the concatenation is done at run-time instead of at
> > compile-time.
>=20
> 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.

You can redefine String#+, so no such optimization must be made at
compile time.

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