Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> schrieb am Do., 4. Juli 2019, 13:54:
> > > On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Tomas Hajny wrote: > > > On 2019-07-04 12:59, Marģers . via fpc-devel wrote: > > > > . > > . > >> Why introduce ` if there already is ' ? Just use ' > >> as well for multi line strings. For people of more > >> conservative view point, put multilinestring > >> behind mode switch. > > > > Because then it's never clear whether the fact that there's no ending > > quote before the end of the line is an omission, or an intention. > > Exactly. > The same goes for all other quote characters. > That's why the directive is a better approach; it is unambigious. > That is indeed another significant problem. Though to be fair "missing end." errors aren't that seldom either... (though I agree that we shouldn't add a new variant to trigger that error ;) ). Regards, Sven >
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