From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2003-11-07T08:46:21+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 21637-21729

On Thursday 06 November 2003 07:36 am, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 21637-21729"
>
>     on 03/11/06, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:
> |Is the syntax error because of the first line or because of the second?
>
> Both.  Sequence of strings will no longer be valid.
>
> |I ask because I do this a lot in my code:
> |
> |  s = "this is a string " \
> |      "that I have chosen to break " \
> |      "into multiple lines"
>
> How about
>
>   s = "this is a string " +
>       "that I have chosen to break " +
>       "into multiple lines"
> ?

My 1 cent: I really wish "" \ style concatenation wouldn't go away.

	Sean O'Dell