This doesn't work if you assign the strings to variables though:

'hi ' 'there'
=>"hi there"

hi = 'hi '
there = 'there'
hi there
NoMethodError: undefined method `hi' for main:Object
  from (irb):9
  from /opt/local/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'


Which is a little counter intuitive.
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