A simple single line, triple-quoted comment is giving syntax error. Why?

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Denis McMahon wrote:

> However, you can't have multiple expressions on a line without some sort
> of operand or separator between them.

String concatenation is implicit in Python, but only with string *literals*:

| $ python
| Python 2.7.9 (default, Mar  1 2015, 12:57:24) 
| [GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
| Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
| >>> 'foo' 'bar'
| 'foobar'

| $ python3
| Python 3.4.2 (default, Dec 27 2014, 13:16:08) 
| [GCC 4.9.2] on linux
| Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
| >>> 'foo' 'bar'
| 'foobar'

They do not even have to be on the same line:

| $ python <<'EOT'
| print("foo"
|   "bar")
| EOT
| foobar

| $ python3 <<'EOT'
| print("foo"
|   "bar")
| EOT
| foobar

(I wished other programming languages had this feature.)

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