While I like the idea in principle, one thing that I'm a bit worried
about is how whitespace is handled, like what counts for a leading or
trailing space in the string when between lines, since Pascal parsers
(and those for many other languages) traditionally, I believe, discard
everything following the last non-whitespace character in a line. Also,
with the backtick suggestion, what should one do if they wish to include
a control character (e.g. a linefeed) or the backtick character itself?
Gareth aka. Kit
P.S. I'm definitely supportive of using the backtick over the regular
single quotation mark. And maybe I'm a purist, but I wish to avoid
directly immigrating semantics from C and its descendants! So Pascal
should continue to have its own style, like with the { } comments.
On 04/07/2019 00:38, Ben Grasset wrote:
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 7:32 PM Ryan Joseph <generic...@gmail.com
<mailto:generic...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I don’t understand these objections either. Who says to themselves
that they explicitly want a language that doesn’t support
multi-line comments or strings? I use both of these all the time
in PHP so it’s really hard to understand why this would be opposed.
Especially with the "backtick" method Michael suggested, I really
can't see any downsides to it. It looks like strings look.
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