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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Jul 27, 2025 at 11:01:16 AM, Michalis Kamburelis via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div>I'd say that (while I understand the reasons it happened) having 2<br>ways in the language to do the same thing -> makes things more<br>complicated.<br><br>Why?<br></div>
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<div dir="ltr">I originally liked the back ticks but after more consideration I think triple quote is best because it’s commonly understand from other major languages (Python,Swift,C# since 2023) and doesn’t introduce new symbols/tokens into the language.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The backticks are famous from JavaScript but they are used for variable interpolation which FPC doesn’t even have so it’s not even a 1:1 match with JavaScript.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Agreed, more than one way to write strings is not helpful and in fact harmful. It really does annoy me in JS that both options exist and you need to agree on which quote to use and sometimes it gets mixed with different programmers etc.. working on the same codebase.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Anyways, thanks to for getting this merged. It’s been a whopping 6 years since the PR was made and it’s a very welcome feature for embedded code. 👏</div><div dir="ltr">
<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div> Ryan Joseph</div></div><br>
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