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

[Marco van de Voort]

Op 2019-07-04 om 15:30 schreef Ben Grasset:
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:14 AM Marco van de Voort 
> <fpc at pascalprogramming.org <mailto:fpc at pascalprogramming.org>> wrote:
>
>     Take a large pascal file with several strings. Normal, non multi-line
>     strings.
>
>     Now, as a thought experiment, remove the closing ' from one of the
>     strings at the top.
>
>     In the case of no multiline string support: error on the line with
>     the
>     missing closing string comment.
>
>
> That's not even how it works, though. Absolutely nothing is changed 
> about the behaviour of "normal" single-line single-quote strings in 
> the (again, working!) implementation I have of this.
>
> Multiline strings are explicitly and only opened / closed used 
> *backticks*.
>
New magic characters in the scanner. Yeah. Really nice (NOT!)


> Everything about the feature is far more simple than you seem to think 
> it is (which is a big part of why I was able to make it work so quickly.)

Anyway, do you miss imagination or so?


const

     singleline = ' accidentally not terminated;

   // lots of lines

     singleline2 = '   `this is a legal string with backticks`';