[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 9:28 AM <wkitty42 at windstream.net> wrote:

> personally speaking, i liked the initial idea but i can now easily see why
> it is
> only allowed in source code comments... there's a world of difference
> between
> them... in one case, the formatting stays put and doesn't affect anything
> else... in the other, the formatting and whitespace are important and
> affect a
> lot of things...
>
> so yeah, i'm out, too... just too much to farkle around with to make it a
> viable
> feature without causing problems of one sort or another...
>

This is like saying "somebody might format a text file in a way that they
didn't actually want, and thus, TStringList.LoadFromFile is a bad feature."
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