line continuations with backslash

[Skip Montanaro]

    Tim> You don't need the "+" signs there; as in C, adjacent string
    Tim> literals are catenated at compile-time.

so why not this then:

    x = long("123"
             "456"
             "789")

which saves all the splitting and joining and is (nearly) as readable?

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