Kill implicit joining of adjacent strings

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:53:23 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 11/12/10 1:06 AM, Don wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 11/11/10 5:59 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>> Let me ask a related question: if there were a priority list of  
>>>>> things
>>>>> that Walter should be busy with, where would this feature be on that
>>>>> list?
>>>>
>>>> For once, I agree with Bearophile. The adjacent string concatenation  
>>>> was
>>>> a very very early feature, and the ~ completely supplants it. While I
>>>> don't think it causes many problems, it's a pointless redundancy and
>>>> should be removed.
>>>
>>> I agree too but there are many similarly good ideas (some of which
>>> from himself) that are older.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> This isn't new. I remember this one being discussed about seven years  
>> ago.
>
> Well put me on board then. Walter, please don't forget to tweak the  
> associativity rules: var ~ " literal " ~ " literal " concatenates  
> literals first.

You mean *should* concatenate literals first?  I think currently it  
doesn't.

-Steve