On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:52 PM Ryan Joseph <generic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just thought of something. Why would it be a bad idea to have a switch > like H+ that makes all single quoted strings become multiline? I can’t > think of a reason off the top of my head which would mess up any of my > programs if suddenly strings were allowed to be more than one line. > Notwithstanding the fact that I'm 100% certain that would never be accepted, given the relative level of controversy that exists even over my implementation as it exists, I just don't think that's really worth it. The backtick does not make it any more unwieldy IMO as it is still just one character. Also, I'm not sure that could be implemented without introducing way too many checks that would ultimately have at least a minorly noticeable impact of compiler performance. The backtick way allows the implementation to stay relatively straightforward and lightweight.
_______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
