[skullsplitter]

In the twitter demo, I noticed this pathological looking string concat statement

https://github.com/s4/examples/blob/master/twittertopiccount...

Im too dim to figure out why it would be done this way (besides the fact thats its an early proof of concept demo). Any idea?

[mzl]

I'm not sure why you think it looks pathological? If you want to construct the data they want to construct, what would you do?