[fpc-pascal] Food for thought - language string improvement

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Thu Jul 6 18:52:40 CEST 2017


In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> 
> Imagine if FPC had type inference and multi-line strings, neither very 
> exotic features. The code then becomes:
> 
> =========================================
> var query := '''SELECT Customers.CustomerName, Orders.OrderID
> FROM Customers
> FULL OUTER JOIN Orders
> ON Customers.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID
> ORDER BY Customers.CustomerName;'''


''' already has meaning, you'll see that 

var s : ansistring;
begin
  s:='''text''';
end.

already compiles now.



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