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

[J. Gareth Moreton]

While I like the idea in principle, one thing that I'm a bit worried 
about is how whitespace is handled, like what counts for a leading or 
trailing space in the string when between lines, since Pascal parsers 
(and those for many other languages) traditionally, I believe, discard 
everything following the last non-whitespace character in a line.  Also, 
with the backtick suggestion, what should one do if they wish to include 
a control character (e.g. a linefeed) or the backtick character itself?

Gareth aka. Kit

P.S. I'm definitely supportive of using the backtick over the regular 
single quotation mark.  And maybe I'm a purist, but I wish to avoid 
directly immigrating semantics from C and its descendants!  So Pascal 
should continue to have its own style, like with the { } comments.


On 04/07/2019 00:38, Ben Grasset wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 7:32 PM Ryan Joseph <genericptr at gmail.com 
> <mailto:genericptr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I don’t understand these objections either. Who says to themselves
>     that they explicitly want a language that doesn’t support
>     multi-line comments or strings? I use both of these all the time
>     in PHP so it’s really hard to understand why this would be opposed.
>
>
> Especially with the "backtick" method Michael suggested, I really 
> can't see any downsides to it. It looks like strings look.
>
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