On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:17:59PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 21637-21729" > on 03/11/06, Paul Brannan <pbrannan / atdesk.com> writes: > |So what will the result of the above two lines of code be? > > Plain syntax error in 1.9.x. Is the syntax error because of the first line or because of the second? 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 I would be happy to switch to using heredocs if there were an easy way to indent heredocs. Paul