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

[Ben Grasset]

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:35 AM Marco van de Voort <fpc at pascalprogramming.org>
wrote:

> New magic characters in the scanner. Yeah. Really nice (NOT!)


It's not magic. It's exactly the same thing as the single quote currently
is, but denoting multi-line strings specifically.

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:35 AM Marco van de Voort <fpc at pascalprogramming.org>
wrote:

> const
>
>      singleline = ' accidentally not terminated;
>
>    // lots of lines
>
>      singleline2 = '   `this is a legal string with backticks`';


You clearly do not understand how it works, still. That would not / does
not compile, because the first string, which is *single-line as it always
has been*, is indeed unterminated. You'd get "string exceeds end of line."
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