<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 10:03 AM Ben Grasset <<a href="mailto:operator97@gmail.com">operator97@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 2:15 AM Tony via fpc-devel <<a href="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org" target="_blank">fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 12:00:07 +0200<br>
Marco van de Voort <<a href="mailto:fpc@pascalprogramming.org" target="_blank">fpc@pascalprogramming.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> In conclusion: it is a solution in search of a problem, with bad <br>
> behaviour in errorhandling (when unbalanced the compiler errors on <br>
> perfectly fine code in the wrong place after whatever ' closes the <br>
> unbalanced ) on top of it.<br>
> <br>
> This is why the feature goes against the grain of Pascal IMHO.<br>
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Well said Marco! I have been reading this mailing list for some time<br>
and have been disturbed recently-ish by how often suggestions come up<br>
for "my pet feature from another language" or "a cool idea I just<br>
had" (I am probably doing an injustice to some of the suggestions, but<br>
often they feel deeply un-Pascal-ish - I can't define it but I know it<br>
when I see it). In these circumstances, a healthy scepticism and<br>
conservatism among the development team is a good thing.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think you are certainly doing injustice to a lot of things. Furthermore, you realize it is possible, to just, you know, make the compiler give better errors when necessary / desired?</div><div><br></div><div>I intend to add something like this for unterminated multi-line strings, most likely once I'm done writing my tests and have submitted a formal patch on the bugtracker.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've now actually done this, for the record:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=35827#c117278">https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=35827#c117278</a> </div></div></div>