[fpc-devel] Current "state of opinion" on multiline strings?

[Ben Grasset]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 5:04 AM Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel <
fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2024, Ben Grasset via fpc-devel wrote:
>
> > 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 implemented the Delphi version in pas2js as well meanwhile (on demand),
> So both work.
>
> I personally prefer the backtick version, it is easier to use.
> but nothing prevents us from having both as in pas2js.
> The implementation can be orthogonal.
>
> If you can change your implementation to actually support both ways, then
> I'll make sure it is merged in the FPC compiler.
>
> Michael.
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Got it. Thanks Michael. I've just replied to your email also.
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