Hi,

At Fri, 7 Nov 2003 07:57:32 +0900,
Paul Brannan wrote:
> 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.

In 1.8, this is concatenated at compile-time. :)

  s = "this is a string #{		# And you can write
      ""}that I have chosen to break #{	# comments!
      ""}into multiple lines"

-- 
Nobu Nakada