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Re: Strings with trailing plus

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On 05/08/2014 09:39 PM, Andrew Poulos wrote:
> On 9/05/2014 7:58 AM, 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 (not possible in JavaScript):
>>
>> str = "a"+ "b"+;
>>
>>    . Preceding plus signs would be:
>>
>> str = +"a" +"b" /* gives "NaNb" */;
>>
>>    . But what you have are intermediate plus signs:
>>
>> str = "a" + "b";
>
> Thanks but I think you misunderstood my question. I wasn't asking about
> how leading or trailing plus signs might affect interpretation but why,
> in a "long" text string that is written over a number of lines, do some
> people prefer plus signs to be leading (or trailing) when concatenating
> the string.
>
> Andrew Poulos
>

   My preference is for preceding such that:

var str = "blah blah... blah"
         + "blah blah... blah"
         + "blah blah... blah"
         + "blah blah... blah"
         + "blah blah... blah";

...the beginnings (+) of each continued line lines up (=) when possible 
(in language of choice). Sometimes even breaking the lines up on visual 
cues for sake of readability. Even in languages where a continuation 
marker is required such that:

var str = "blah blah... blah" _
         + "blah blah... blah" _
         + "blah blah... blah" _
         + "blah blah... blah" _
         + "blah blah... blah"



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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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