On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 7:57 PM J. Gareth Moreton <gar...@moreton-family.com> wrote:
> 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? > I've looked through the sources extensively (and started playing around with a basic implementation, actually.) FPC doesn't care about anything other than #13, #10 when it comes to terminating lines, currently. For the backtick, it just needs to not intentionally error out on #13 and #10, and instead continue until it hits another backtick. As far as including the backtick itself, the rough version I have going accepts it the same way a single-quote literal is currently accepted (which is to say, if you want a single quote literal, you have to do four of them in a row. Same applies to the backtick.)
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