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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/07/2025 17:59, Michalis
Kamburelis via fpc-pascal wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">Moreover, in case of multi-line comments, the additional confusion
(which I still think is possible) is because there are {$xxx} compiler
directives changing their behavior, and some of them apply only to
backtick-style, some only to ''' style, and from their naming
($MULTILINESTRINGLINEENDING / $TEXTBLOCK) it's not clear which applies
to which. We will have to remember that $MULTILINESTRINGLINEENDING is
for backticks-style, and $TEXTBLOCK is for '''-style.</pre>
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Maybe they should be named different... I guess the tripple quote
directives match up with Delphi?<br>
(Otherwise MultiQuoteString ?)<br>
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But the backtick, could have BacktickString or BackQuoteString in
the name?<br>
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">On the same ground, we would all protest if someone tried to introduce
alternative way to write "assignment operator", just because some
people would like to write "A := B", while others "A <- B". It's not
that ":=" or "<-" is better, it's that "one version of doing it should
be enough".
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Or have array element index done different?<br>
type TFooArray = array (.0..9.) of Byte;<br>
SomeFooArray(.3.) := 1;<br>
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Oh wait, that compiles. ;)<br>
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