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On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 19:50:14 +0200, Pieter van Oostrum wrote:

> You could even omit the '+'. Then the concatenation is done at parsing
> time instead of run time.

Surprising how few people know about this. It’s a feature copied from C, 
and present in C++. But for some reason Java, JavaScript and PHP dropped 
it. Python is one of the few other languages that has it.