[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]

On 04/07/2019 06:34, Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote:
> Am 04.07.2019 um 01:00 schrieb Marco van de Voort:
>>
>> Op 2019-07-03 om 20:43 schreef Michael Van Canneyt:
>>>
>>> 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".
>>
>> Me too. Mostly overrated IMHO, and ugly as sin exception on general 
>> rules.
>>
>> 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.

I always get a nasty emotion comparable to nationalism when I see a 
feature or formatting style introduced into Pascal just for it to 
resemble C!  I personally love Pascal's multi-line comments and think 
they look quite neat in the source file, but that's just me.

Gareth aka. Kit


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