On Oct 1, 2008, at 11:42 AM, James Gray wrote: > On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Jim Freeze wrote: >> Under those circumstances, you really want some type of lexical (is >> that the right word here) addition is not part of the language but >> part of the preprocesser. > > Wild. So the parser builds this as a single String literal? I > didn't know that. Yes. There are no method calls involved, it's handled directly in the parser.