[fpc-devel] Current "state of opinion" on multiline strings? I still have this up-to-date locally with trunk FPC, despite having neglected pushing this anywhere online for a while now.

[Ben Grasset]

Facts:
- Michael VC did not originally like the entire idea at all, if I recall
correctly. However, he eventually added an implementation of it to Pas2JS
that works literally the exact same as my main FPC compiler one does.
- Delphi (in the time since, as of version 12 I guess) has added this
themselves. Their version is not quite the same (frankly in my opinion,
theirs is overall worse than mine, for reasons such as the fact you HAVE to
put the closing backticks of a multiline string on their own entire line in
Delphi, whereas in my version the closing backticks could appear anywhere
and be parsed correctly. And so on and so forth).

I'm as ready as I was several years ago to put this in main FPC if it'll be
accepted, however, would people want me to now imitate the Delphi
version (which again did not exist when I originally implemented the
functionality for FPC, and again is functionally different from both the
unmerged main compiler impl of mine and Michael VCs identical
actually-existing impl for Pas2JS).

I'd certainly don't really WANT to adapt to the (like I said, worse in my
opinion) Delphi version, but I would if I "had" to. So that's why I figured
I'd check in to see what people's general thoughts are on all of this
nowadays.
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