On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, Ryan Joseph wrote:
On Jul 3, 2019, at 12:53 PM, Ben Grasset <operato...@gmail.com> wrote:
After thinking about it more though I think Michael's backtick suggestion
might actually be the best way to go, because of the fact that backticks
currently have no meaning at all in Pascal, and as such, the compiler
could safely directly and immediately assume that any use of them was
specifically either the opening or closing of a multiline string.
What about double quotes? I think those are available and it makes sense.
Better not. A backtick has the advantage that it looks like a single quote.
Double quotes shout 'C' and I have a vague suspicion that one day double quotes
will come
into view to quote identifiers. (like they do e.g. in SQL)
But the main question is: do we actually want a multiline string ?
As far as I am concerned, that question needs to be answered first, and for
me personally the answer to that is still a resounding "no".
There is also still:
https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=25536
Michael.
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