[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 Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 7:33 PM Ben Grasset <operator97 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm still very unclear about where Ryan said he got "illegal expression"
> and such, though. I just now tested another large number of possible ways
> you can use multi-line strings, and they all do work.
>

As an (extreme) example of something that *does*, and should, work:

program BadFormatting;

         begin

writeln        (`a

     b
c
      d
             e
f`

);


   end.
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