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<p>While I like the idea in principle, one thing that I'm a bit
worried about is how whitespace is handled, like what counts for a
leading or trailing space in the string when between lines, since
Pascal parsers (and those for many other languages) traditionally,
I believe, discard everything following the last non-whitespace
character in a line. Also, with the backtick suggestion, what
should one do if they wish to include a control character (e.g. a
linefeed) or the backtick character itself?</p>
<p>Gareth aka. Kit</p>
<p>P.S. I'm definitely supportive of using the backtick over the
regular single quotation mark. And maybe I'm a purist, but I wish
to avoid directly immigrating semantics from C and its
descendants! So Pascal should continue to have its own style,
like with the { } comments.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 7:32 PM Ryan Joseph <<a
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I don’t understand these objections either. Who says to
themselves that they explicitly want a language that doesn’t
support multi-line comments or strings? I use both of these
all the time in PHP so it’s really hard to understand why
this would be opposed.<br>
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<div>Especially with the "backtick" method Michael suggested,
I really can't see any downsides to it. It looks like
strings look.</div>
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