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

Ben Grasset operator97 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 5 17:35:51 CEST 2019


On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 11:29 AM Ryan Joseph <genericptr at gmail.com> wrote:

> This may not be related but why does "l: string = lines;” work, shouldn’t
> that be an error or at least get clipped? I’m seeing writeln prints out the
> entire string as if it was an ansistring.
>

Your example has nothing to do with multi-line strings specifically, and is
completely normal, expected behavior when in {$H+}.

You could write the exact same constant string with single-line strings
using the "addition operators and sLineBreak" method, and assign it to the
variable the exact same way, and it would display identically.
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