On 28/07/2025 17:59, Michalis Kamburelis via fpc-pascal wrote:
Moreover, in case of multi-line comments, the additional confusion
(which I still think is possible) is because there are {$xxx} compiler
directives changing their behavior, and some of them apply only to
backtick-style, some only to ''' style, and from their naming
($MULTILINESTRINGLINEENDING / $TEXTBLOCK) it's not clear which applies
to which. We will have to remember that $MULTILINESTRINGLINEENDING is
for backticks-style, and $TEXTBLOCK is for '''-style.
Maybe they should be named different... I guess the tripple quote
directives match up with Delphi?
(Otherwise MultiQuoteString ?)
But the backtick, could have BacktickString or BackQuoteString in the name?
On the same ground, we would all protest if someone tried to introduce
alternative way to write "assignment operator", just because some
people would like to write "A := B", while others "A <- B". It's not
that ":=" or "<-" is better, it's that "one version of doing it should
be enough".
Or have array element index done different?
type TFooArray = array (.0..9.) of Byte;
SomeFooArray(.3.) := 1;
Oh wait, that compiles. ;)
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