Personally, I prefer the back tick, but they're both excellent additions to the language.
On Sun 27 Jul 2025, 20:15 Thomas Kurz via fpc-pascal, < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > > Deprecate in FPC and Pas2js the "backtick version". That is, let the > > compilers just generate a message like "Multi-line strings using > > backticks are deprecated and will be removed in some future release. > > We encourage to use instead syntax with 3 apostrophes, docs on XXX" > > when it encounters such syntax. > > And then it is clear to users what to use in new code. And they can > > easily upgrade their code, just follow compiler messages. > > And then in 2+ years maybe we can remove the old backtick version. > > And everything is simpler :) > > +1 for this approach. I also think that only one way to do it may be the > best. If pas2js was first, it'd be best to change Delphi, but it's pretty > unrealistic. So migrating pas2js to the Delphi way seems to be the cleanest > thing. > > Regards, > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal >
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