From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2012-04-07T05:23:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:44166] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #6265] Remove 'useless' 'concatenation' syntax

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 16:52, marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)
<ruby-core@marc-andre.ca> wrote:

>> ��> What is this ('concatenation' 'syntax') useful for?

>> ��raise ArgumentError,
>> �� ��'they are useful for long strings that are so long that they need ' \
>> �� ��'to span multiple lines to fit within a reasonable line width'

> In this example, replacing the "\" with a "+" will give basically the same result without using the concatenation rule.

The ���basically the same��� being that the first happens at compile time
and the second at run time, for anyone wondering.