[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 18:10:12 CEST 2019


On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 11:56 AM Ryan Joseph <genericptr at gmail.com> wrote:

> So H+ makes all short strings ansistrings? I added that or I got an error
> about the string being too long.
>

It makes all "just String without the word Short or Ansi in front of it"
variables AnsiStrings, and yes, enables "true constant" strings that are
longer than 255 characters.

Explicit "ShortString" variables are still exactly what they say they are
in all cases though, of course.
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