Comments on: Spanning javascript strings across multiple lines http://helephant.com/2007/05/spanning-javascript-strings-across-multiple-lines/ Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:27:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Armando Wall http://helephant.com/2007/05/spanning-javascript-strings-across-multiple-lines/#comment-644 Armando Wall Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://helephant.net/?p=314#comment-644 Javascript, as many other languages such as Java, C#, PHP, Actionscript, C++, Objective-C, etc, borrowed much of its syntax from the C language (if you don't believe me, just google for source code or a tutorial on C). Having said that, this is a feature originally found in C, so it's safe to assume that Javascript inherited it from it as well.<br /><br />- Armando ("Rafael") Wall.<br /> Javascript, as many other languages such as Java, C#, PHP, Actionscript, C++, Objective-C, etc, borrowed much of its syntax from the C language (if you don’t believe me, just google for source code or a tutorial on C). Having said that, this is a feature originally found in C, so it’s safe to assume that Javascript inherited it from it as well.

- Armando (“Rafael”) Wall.

]]> By: Myself http://helephant.com/2007/05/spanning-javascript-strings-across-multiple-lines/#comment-645 Myself Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://helephant.net/?p=314#comment-645 It's a different solution:<br /><br />Using a line break with the escape character, you just create a string literal, though it's defined in two lines of code.<br /><br />Using + you are creating two string objects and concatenating them to create a third string object. That takes more time and memory. It may seem it's not so bad, but if you do that many times with a not too powerful architecture (i.e. java ME), you will end up slowing your application because memory allocation and garbage collection will be quite more requent. It’s a different solution:

Using a line break with the escape character, you just create a string literal, though it’s defined in two lines of code.

Using + you are creating two string objects and concatenating them to create a third string object. That takes more time and memory. It may seem it’s not so bad, but if you do that many times with a not too powerful architecture (i.e. java ME), you will end up slowing your application because memory allocation and garbage collection will be quite more requent.

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