[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 Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 8:07 AM Ben Grasset <operator97 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:34 AM Tomas Hajny <XHajT03 at hajny.biz> wrote:
>
>> Have you tested command-line compilation with a CR-only source file?
>> Since this is what he mentioned to be using (because being on a Mac)...
>> There may be some difference on the scanner side in theory...
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>
> -snip- "const SomeString: String = " -snip-
>

I meant that to be "const SomeString ="

On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 8:07 AM Ben Grasset <operator97 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:34 AM Tomas Hajny <XHajT03 at hajny.biz> wrote:
>
>> Have you tested command-line compilation with a CR-only source file?
>> Since this is what he mentioned to be using (because being on a Mac)...
>> There may be some difference on the scanner side in theory...
>>
>
> I have. It works fine, because of course it does.
>
> Everything he was talking about was clearly based on fundamentally not
> understanding the basic differences between things like "const SomeString:
> String = " and "var SomeString: AnsiString = ", and assuming that they were
> somehow *supposed* to be affected the same way by {$H+}, and so on.
>
> Sorry for getting a bit frustrated everyone, but it's annoying to have
> this long back and forth discussion about a vague "problem" that simply
> does not exist.
>
>
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