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

John Doe slightlyoutofphase at gmail.com
Thu Jul 4 01:35:19 CEST 2019


On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 4:20 PM Ben Grasset <operator97 at gmail.com> wrote:

> const SA = `
>   This is a multiline
>   string using hypothetical backticks.
>   Imagine it was fully syntax-highlighted
>   like normal strings and the comment
>   above are.
> `;
>

That would be great to have! I've definitely wanted something like that
many times in my Pascal career.

Don't understand why anyone would be against this... just looks like a
regular string pretty much.
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