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

[Ryan Joseph]

> On Jul 3, 2019, at 5:48 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> In case case of readability: most cases of multi line string constants are likely to be embedded scripts (shaders, SQL, whatever) and thus the $INCLUDESTRING directive mentioned in the bug report is much more useable, because it allows you to view the embedded file in its own editor together with syntax hightlighting and possibly code completion.

Why is this any better than just loading the string at runtime? You’re right it’s probably better to have separate files most of the time but it’s nice to just toss things into source files sometimes for quick and dirty stuff.

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph