[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 4:50 PM <wkitty42 at windstream.net> wrote:

> just asking... can't test... the private procedure is specifically to
> exhibit
> various formats and to query what the output would be... intended output
> in this
> case is
>

The output is always exactly what is written (apart from the line endings.)

You cannot, in my opinion at least, reasonably expect something like this
to *ignore* all indentation and still function in any logical way. That the
leading whitespace is taken at "face value" is a large part of what makes
it useful for anything at all.
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