Re: Backslash-newline escape as a line continuation rather than a newline?

[Quae Quack <quae@...>]

On 8 April 2010 11:57, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

 the best

solution is concatenation, really:
       a = "a long string"
         .."continues here without"
         .."line breaks"

Agreed. and if constant folding for string concatenation was implemented, any downsides are removed....