[fpc-pascal] Feature "Multiline strings" added

tsiegel at softcon.com tsiegel at softcon.com
Mon Jul 28 15:26:08 CEST 2025


Your argument makes no sense.  There's always been multiple ways to do 
many things in pascal, and it's never caused any more confusion than any 
other typical language construct.

Take for instance, comments.

{ this is a comment}

works just as well as

(* this is a comment *)

I don't believe I've ever seen you complain about multiple ways to put 
comments in the code

Would that also cause the same issues as you argue for the multiple line 
string support?

I'd guess not at all.

Why?

Because some folks use one, and some use the other, functionally they're 
the same.  Whether one takes more processing than the other isn't 
something I've bothered to check, but honestly, who cares? Both 
accomplish the same thing, and folks can use whichever one they like.

I find your arguing about multiline strings to be exactly the same thing.

Who cares?

Use it or don't, it makes no difference to anyone except the programmers 
that don't like it for whatever obscure reason, but it affects nothing 
as far as the language is concerned, so why get so worked about it?

I see no confusion here, nor do I agree that it can/will lead to 
problems you describe, and if it does, then someone can simply use 
search and replace to solve the problem.




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