On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:36:23AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 21637-21729" > on 03/11/06, Paul Brannan <pbrannan / atdesk.com> writes: > | > | 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" This works, but the concatenation is done at run-time instead of at compile-time. Paul