[prog] Joel on Software: Leaky Abstractions

[Random832]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:20:16PM -1000, Jimen Ching wrote:
> Though there is the question of the usefulness of adding two constant
> string literals.  This is allowed:
> 
> 	string s = "foo" "bar";
> 
> Though not technically OO, its legal.  ;)

my understanding had always been that the construction you mentioned was
a single string literal. the intention being to construct them from the
preprocessor: "My version number is " VERSIONSTRING ".\n"