[fpc-pascal] Feature "Multiline strings" added

[Hairy Pixels]

 On Jul 28, 2025 at 7:26:08 AM, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> 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 *)
>

Yeah that’s not great either. Language tools are going to need to support a
new ` token too or syntax styling will  breaks. It’s just more work so
what’s the point?

On  the other hand, why can’t ‘’ simply be used for all string lengths?
Can’t think of a practical  reason off the top of my head right now.

Regards,
    Ryan Joseph
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