[fpc-pascal] Feature "Multiline strings" added

[Martin Frb]

On 28/07/2025 17:59, Michalis Kamburelis via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Moreover, in case of multi-line comments, the additional confusion
> (which I still think is possible) is because there are {$xxx} compiler
> directives changing their behavior, and some of them apply only to
> backtick-style, some only to ''' style, and from their naming
> ($MULTILINESTRINGLINEENDING / $TEXTBLOCK) it's not clear which applies
> to which. We will have to remember that $MULTILINESTRINGLINEENDING is
> for backticks-style, and $TEXTBLOCK is for '''-style.

Maybe they should be named different... I guess the tripple quote 
directives match up with Delphi?
(Otherwise MultiQuoteString ?)

But the backtick, could have BacktickString or BackQuoteString in the name?


> On the same ground, we would all protest if someone tried to introduce
> alternative way to write "assignment operator", just because some
> people would like to write "A := B", while others "A <- B". It's not
> that ":=" or "<-" is better, it's that "one version of doing it should
> be enough".

Or have array element index done different?
   type TFooArray = array (.0..9.) of Byte;
     SomeFooArray(.3.) := 1;

Oh wait, that compiles. ;)
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