On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 2:15 AM Tony via fpc-devel < fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 12:00:07 +0200 > Marco van de Voort <f...@pascalprogramming.org> wrote: > > > In conclusion: it is a solution in search of a problem, with bad > > behaviour in errorhandling (when unbalanced the compiler errors on > > perfectly fine code in the wrong place after whatever ' closes the > > unbalanced ) on top of it. > > > > This is why the feature goes against the grain of Pascal IMHO. > > Well said Marco! I have been reading this mailing list for some time > and have been disturbed recently-ish by how often suggestions come up > for "my pet feature from another language" or "a cool idea I just > had" (I am probably doing an injustice to some of the suggestions, but > often they feel deeply un-Pascal-ish - I can't define it but I know it > when I see it). In these circumstances, a healthy scepticism and > conservatism among the development team is a good thing. > I think you are certainly doing injustice to a lot of things. Furthermore, you realize it is possible, to just, you know, make the compiler give better errors when necessary / desired? I intend to add something like this for unterminated multi-line strings, most likely once I'm done writing my tests and have submitted a formal patch on the bugtracker.
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