On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 5:04 AM Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel < fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 21 Dec 2024, Ben Grasset via fpc-devel wrote: > > > Facts: > > - Michael VC did not originally like the entire idea at all, if I recall > > correctly. However, he eventually added an implementation of it to Pas2JS > > that works literally the exact same as my main FPC compiler one does. > > - Delphi (in the time since, as of version 12 I guess) has added this > > themselves. Their version is not quite the same (frankly in my opinion, > > theirs is overall worse than mine, for reasons such as the fact you HAVE > to > > put the closing backticks of a multiline string on their own entire line > in > > Delphi, whereas in my version the closing backticks could appear anywhere > > and be parsed correctly. And so on and so forth). > > > > I'm as ready as I was several years ago to put this in main FPC if it'll > be > > accepted, however, would people want me to now imitate the Delphi > > version (which again did not exist when I originally implemented the > > functionality for FPC, and again is functionally different from both the > > unmerged main compiler impl of mine and Michael VCs identical > > actually-existing impl for Pas2JS). > > I implemented the Delphi version in pas2js as well meanwhile (on demand), > So both work. > > I personally prefer the backtick version, it is easier to use. > but nothing prevents us from having both as in pas2js. > The implementation can be orthogonal. > > If you can change your implementation to actually support both ways, then > I'll make sure it is merged in the FPC compiler. > > Michael. > _______________________________________________ > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel Got it. Thanks Michael. I've just replied to your email also.
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