Am 03.07.19 um 18:53 schrieb Ben Grasset:
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 10:22 AM Marcus Sackrow <al...@web.de <mailto:al...@web.de>> wrote:I use an operator overload(not for constants but inside the code) because I'm used to our script engine have the '/' as operator for strings as line break. That's certainly a neat use of operator overloading! However, I think that it is still rather less clean/readable than what would be possible with "true" unbroken multiline strings. For really short stuff like your writeln example, also, it's not much different from just doing the following, which is already supported: writeln('1st line'#13#10'second line'); or writeln('1st line'#10'second line'); BTW, doing it with an operator like that introduces quite a bit of additional overhead, as the concatenation is no longer done at compile time.
Sure I meant with that, if a new scheme would be introduced to make multiline strings easier, i would prefer such operator, then as real compiler operator also for constants and so on. Mine is just a workaround. (the operator would also automatically select the right line ending, mabye defined together with decimalseparator in formatsettings) real multiline strings, I do not like, because they look ugly in a well indented code... so your initial example taken would have an awful lot of spaces in front of all lines, exept the first one. Greetings, Marcus
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