[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 Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 10:03 AM Ben Grasset <operator97 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 2:15 AM Tony via fpc-devel <
> fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 12:00:07 +0200
>> Marco van de Voort <fpc at pascalprogramming.org> wrote:
>>
>> > In conclusion:  it is a solution in search of a problem, with bad
>> > behaviour in errorhandling (when unbalanced the compiler errors on
>> > perfectly fine code in the wrong place after whatever ' closes the
>> > unbalanced ) on top of it.
>> >
>> > This is why the feature goes against the grain of Pascal IMHO.
>>
>> Well said Marco!  I have been reading this mailing list for some time
>> and have been disturbed recently-ish by how often suggestions come up
>> for "my pet feature from another language" or "a cool idea I just
>> had" (I am probably doing an injustice to some of the suggestions, but
>> often they feel deeply un-Pascal-ish - I can't define it but I know it
>> when I see it).  In these circumstances, a healthy scepticism and
>> conservatism among the development team is a good thing.
>>
>
> I think you are certainly doing injustice to a lot of things. Furthermore,
> you realize it is possible, to just, you know, make the compiler give
> better errors when necessary / desired?
>
> I intend to add something like this for unterminated multi-line strings,
> most likely once I'm done writing my tests and have submitted a formal
> patch on the bugtracker.
>

I've now actually done this, for the record:

https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=35827#c117278
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