On 2019-07-06 23:37, Ben Grasset wrote:
On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 5:17 PM Ben Grasset <operato...@gmail.com>
wrote:
You cannot, in my opinion at least, reasonably expect something like
this
to *ignore* all indentation and still function in any logical way.
That the
leading whitespace is taken at "face value" is a large part of what
makes
it useful for anything at all.
That said: it may, eventually, be possible for me to add an additional
directive taking a number that indicates how many spaces to *remove*
from
the beginning of a line (but never add.)
.
.
Personally, I don't think that such a directive is worth the effort,
because _if_ any indentation should be supported for these strings, it
would only make sense to indent them to the same level as the
surrounding code (which may differ obviously). From this point of view,
a directive allowing to trim leading whitespaces from them would make
more sense (but even that is not that much necessary as far as I can
tell).
BTW, should you consider creating such a directive, it should probably
allow something like the following (to provide means to have a leading
space where necessary):
{$MULTILINESTRINGS INDENTED} (* Just invented ;-) *)
const
MultilineString = `Line 1
Line 2
`#32`Line 3 with one leading space`;
WriteLn (MultilineString);
... resulting in:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3 with one leading space
Tomas
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