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

[Sven Barth]

Benito van der Zander <benito at benibela.de> schrieb am Fr., 5. Juli 2019,
11:33:

> Hi,
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> Am 04.07.19 um 19:51 schrieb Marco van de Voort:
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> If $ifdef was a single char token, maybe. And for a trivial feature, not a
> core one, like conditional compiling.
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> So the compiler will correctly give an error.
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> ... but not at or near the place where the mistake is made.
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> Some languages uses multiple chars to mark start and end to solve that.
> E.g. in XQuery there are strings with 3-char markers:  ``[   ...    ]``
>

And that would solve the problem if a missing termination how? It would be
even worse, cause you could forget one of the backticks (e.g. on my systems
it's a dead key, thus I also need to use space to get the character) and
you might not easily see where it is missing.

Regards,
Sven

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