James Gray wrote:
> I'm disappointed that Ruby still supports this goofy syntax:
> 
>   $ ruby_dev -ve 'p "a" "bc"'
>   ruby 1.9.0 (2008-09-27 revision 0) [i386-darwin9.5.0]
>   "abc"
> 
> I'm not sure I've ever seen this used on purpose, but I know I've seen 
> it several times as a bug now (usually missing a comma between them).  
> Ruby makes these bugs harder to find just to give us a concatenation 
> syntax no one seems to use.
> 
> I vote we use 1.9 as a good excuse to remove this dubious feature.

Seconded. I've never seen much point to this, and I thought it had been 
deprecated for a long time now.