[fpc-devel] Some thoughts on multi-line string support, and a possible syntax that I think is perfectly clean and Pascal-ish.

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On 7/3/19 12:53 PM, Ben Grasset wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 10:22 AM Marcus Sackrow <alb42 at web.de> wrote:
> 
>     I use an operator overload(not for constants but inside the code)
>     because I'm used to our script engine have the '/' as operator for
>     strings as line break.
> 
> That's certainly a neat use of operator overloading! However, I think that it is 
> still rather less clean/readable than what would be possible with "true" 
> unbroken multiline strings.


FWIW: it uses the '/' in the traditional *nix form of indicating a line 
continues on the next line...

[edit before shipping]

oh! oops! nope... that's the '\' character which i would prefer to see but i do 
like his operator overload and may swipe it for use with the '\' character some 
time... it appears to fit perfectly for this task ;)


https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+line+continuation+character


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