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Re: Strings with trailing plus

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Strings with trailing plus
Date 2014-05-09 10:11 +0200
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Message-ID <1430916.RbAtrO6aNY@PointedEars.de> (permalink)
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Stefan Ram wrote:

> Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> writes:
>>I typically concatenate long stings with trailing spaces and plus signs
>>eg. var str = "blah blah... blah " +
>>           "blah blah... blah " +
>>           "blah blah... blah " +
>>           "blah blah... blah " +
>>           "blah blah... blah";
>>but I've seen code with leading plus signs and spaces eg.
>>var str = "blah blah blah"
>>           + " blah blah... blah"
>>           + " blah blah... blah"
>>           + " blah blah... blah"
>>           + " blah blah... blah";
>>Is their a reason to prefer one over the other?
> 
>   Those are /intermediate/ plus signs in both cases.
> 
>   Trailing plus signs would be […]

[de] Nuhr.

,<http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/trail?q=trailing#trail__16>
| 
| [NO OBJECT] (Typically of a plant) grow or hang over the edge of something 
| or along the ground:

(whereas the edge would be the perceived edge of the source code)

,-<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trail>
|
| 3 […]
|   c :  to follow along behind

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Strings with trailing plus Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-05 12:07 +1000
  Re: Strings with trailing plus "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2014-05-05 08:08 +0300
    Re: Strings with trailing plus Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-05-05 13:02 +0200
  Re: Strings with trailing plus Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-05 19:45 +0200
  Re: Strings with trailing plus Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-09 11:39 +1000
    Re: Strings with trailing plus Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-09 10:13 +0200
    Re: Strings with trailing plus Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2014-05-09 22:43 -0400
  Re: Strings with trailing plus Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-09 10:11 +0200
  Re: Strings with trailing plus Dr J R Stockton <reply1400@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2014-05-09 12:40 +0100

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