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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Jul 28, 2025 at 1:04:49 AM, Michael Van Canneyt 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>Personally, I prefer the backtick solution. <br>The triple quote is slow, it requires postprocessing the string. <br>The backtick solution needs only one pass.<br><br><rant><br>I positively HATE it when people start treating whitespace as<br>significant. No YAML or Python for me on that account alone. <br>The triple quote solution (presumably Python inspired) <br>is a totally braindead and retarded solution as far as I am concerned.<br></rant><br></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Maybe I missed something, aren’t both the string types identical in how they function? I don’t understand how there could be multiple passes.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The ‘’’ was probably chosen because it doesn’t introduce a new token and old syntax styles will continue to work without modification. `` is a string and ` opens the “inner string” so everything still works naturally like before in existing editors.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Even doing that may be baggage from decades of ingrained thinking about strings being single lines. If anyone has any non-dogmatic reasons why ‘’ can’t allow multiple lines I’d like to hear them because I’m curious myself.</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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