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

[Ben Grasset]

Neat bit of trivia:

Multi line strings even work properly with Ryan's (Ryan Joseph that is)
very-cool-but-not-yet-merged-to-trunk
<https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=35140> generic constants patch.

With a build of FPC that includes both, you can do some really interesting
stuff:

program FunWithCurrentlyUnofficialLanguageFeatures;

{$mode ObjFPC}
{$modeswitch AdvancedRecords}
{$modeswitch MultiLineStrings}

type
  generic Tripler<const S: String> = record
    const Result = S + S + S;
  end;

begin
  Write(
    specialize Tripler<`
      A
      B
      C
      D
    `>.Result
  );
end.

The above program printing, as you might expect:

      A
      B
      C
      D

      A
      B
      C
      D

      A
      B
      C
      D

Can't do that in Delphi!
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