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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Jul 28, 2025 at 7:26:08 AM, Travis Siegel 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>Your argument makes no sense. There's always been multiple ways to do <br>many things in pascal, and it's never caused any more confusion than any <br>other typical language construct.<br><br>Take for instance, comments.<br><br>{ this is a comment}<br><br>works just as well as<br><br>(* this is a comment *)<br></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Yeah that’s not great either. Language tools are going to need to support a new ` token too or syntax styling will breaks. It’s just more work so what’s the point?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On the other hand, why can’t ‘’ simply be used for all string lengths? Can’t think of a practical reason off the top of my head right now.</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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