Re: C or SH like string cat proposal

2001-04-26 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:10:10AM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: > That means, if you have a long list of scalars rou want to cat > together and it will run over the edge of your line > you can do this: > > $onethroughten = $one$two$three$four$five"" > ""$six$seven$

C or SH like string cat proposal

2001-04-24 Thread David L. Nicol
1: use adjacency w/o white space for string cat. 2: allow, as in C, consecutive double-quoted strings with no intervening tokens (i.e. just whitespace and comments) to be considered as one string 3: as Uri pointed out, it's all syntactic sugar for convolutions of C That means,