[Python-ideas] Implicit string literal concatenation considered harmful?

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On Friday, May 17, 2013 8:14:39 AM UTC-6, Ron Adam wrote:

> On 05/17/2013 06:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: 
> > They clearly should be in different threads. Line continuation is 
> > orthogonal to string continuation. You can have string concatenation on 
> a 
> > single line: 
> > 
> > s = "Label:\t" r"Data containing \ backslashes" 
>
> Can you think of, or find an example of two adjacent strings on the same 
> line that can't be written as a single string? 
>
>      s = "Label:\t Data containing \ backslashes" 
>
> I'm curious about how much of a problem not having implicit string 
> concatenations really is? 
>

"Can't" is an unrealistically high a bar but I posted a real example at
  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2013-May/020847.html
that is *better* written IMO as adjacently-concatenated string literals.

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