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

[Sven Barth]

Am 05.07.2019 um 19:38 schrieb Ryan Joseph:
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>> On Jul 5, 2019, at 1:34 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> Why should they always be required? If your multiline string is shorter than 256 characters then all is well.
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>> And otherwise you'd have the same problem with an ordinary string constant.
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>> So this behaves exactly as expected and desired.
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> Sure, but I suspect majority of strings will be longer than 255. I guess this isn’t just multi-line string related but how do I declare a string constant that doesn’t then change “string” in the entire unit? I tried the typed constant but that doesn’t seem to work (got Illegal expression).

I didn't get an Illegal Expression error (maybe that's still a problem 
of the multi line string support? I tested with a normal string), but 
the compiler nevertheless concatenates the string.

So in essence: if you want long string constants use $H+ mode.

Regards,
Sven