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

[Ben Grasset]

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 7:01 PM Marco van de Voort <fpc at pascalprogramming.org>
wrote:

> Me too. Mostly overrated IMHO, and ugly as sin exception on general rules.
>

They're not overrated. There's very clear uses.

As far as ugly, are you then saying that the "millions of addition
operators" way is somehow less ugly?

We're talking about just.... normal text here. I do not see how it can be
"ugly" in any case.

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 7:01 PM Marco van de Voort <fpc at pascalprogramming.org>
wrote:

> Also goes for comments, but those have been in for a long time, so that
> is a bit moot.


 It would be ridiculous if FPC did not support multi-line comments.
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