Re: Feature "Multiline strings" added

Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:41:31 -0700

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 On Jul 28, 2025 at 8:24:38 AM, Brian via fpc-pascal <
[email protected]> wrote:

> The two ways to do comments are, IMO, almost essential. The way I was
> taught to write Pascal, about 45 years ago now, was to use braces for
> comments - but then if you needed to comment out a whole chunk of
> code, including multiple comments, you used (* and *) to do it.
>

I think this is historical baggage from {} not being able to nest within
each other. There’s no technical reason why {} can’t nest but instead of
changing that a new comment was introduced. Seems redundant to me now
looking back.

Regards,
    Ryan Joseph

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