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

[Sven Barth]

Am 04.07.2019 um 01:00 schrieb Marco van de Voort:
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> Op 2019-07-03 om 20:43 schreef Michael Van Canneyt:
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>> But the main question is: do we actually want a multiline string ? As 
>> far as I am concerned, that question needs to be answered first, and for
>> me personally the answer to that is still a resounding "no".
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> Me too. Mostly overrated IMHO, and ugly as sin exception on general 
> rules.
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> Also goes for comments, but those have been in for a long time, so 
> that is a bit moot.
You are aware that Pascal contained multi line comments (both "(* ... 
*)" and "{ ... }") before single line comments "// ... " where added? 
Though I also don't understand why you think multi line comments are 
overrated.

Regards,
Sven