Multi-Line Strings - New in Delphi 12 - 224

[@olivierbeltrami]

Great feature to add SQL at runtime.

[@ajcdos2]

Al fin!, eso era realmente un detalle que le hacia falta a Delphi 😋 aunque copiándose un poco del comentario largo de Python 😅, pero muy buena la implementación fácil para multilinea 😎👍

[@davemurey6119]

Интересно, а подробные конструкции есть ли в Lazarus?

[@marekjakimowicz]

Looks nice.

[@jairgza]

great feature, I hope they add string interpolation later

[@codegearguru]

I've not used this language feature, but it might lead to more concise string concatination code. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interpolation

[@mz9zn]

5:35 what keys are you using to shift the selected strings?? Never knew about this feature and always used a macros for that...

[@codegearguru]

It's just Tab (and the reverse Shift+Tab). It been in Delphi since XE8, prior to this you could use Ctrl+Shift+I to indent and Ctrl+Shift+U to un-indent

[@mz9zn]

@@codegearguru Wow, this thing is awesome. You literally changed my life 🙂 Thank you a lot!!!

[@alexandrosipov4186]

But again no AVX instructions in new version :(

[@codegearguru]

I can't say it's something I'm looking forward to or require, but it will be important to a few developers.

[@JaDanBar97]

If Alistair Christie saw how my code is formatted he would no doubt kill me 😂

[@codegearguru]

I've delt with some pretty scary stuff, where I'm just left scratching my head as to why. Having you code formatted in a consistent way makes it easier to read, and therefor easier to spot bugs.

[@colinmaharaj]

0:36 user interface done, lol 😂

[@szabolti]

How can you keep spaces at line ends?

[@codegearguru]

Interesting, I don't know, maybe some sort of Unicode space? Why do you want to?

[@havenisse2009]

Just need to adapt F-strings from Python and heredoc from perl.. It would be fantastic if both optionally were possible.

[@jensborrisholt5555]

The Source formatter in Delphi 12 breaks the new multiline string. Thats bad

[@codegearguru]

It's probably going to be a while before it's fully supported, I've yet to test it with refactoring as well.

[@jensborrisholt5555]

@@codegearguru unfortunately yes. But it means we cannot use the feature until its fixed

[@andrewbrown8463]

I don’t get there strategy on half implementing features like this. It was the same for inline variables that came in 10.3 but if you wanted to use them you had to put up with all sorts of visual disasters telling you all the code under them was broken which made it almost impossible to recommend them to be part of the code base

[@jensborrisholt5555]

Emb have their focus on the wrong thing. The main product: The language og the Ide doesn't interest them. If it did, they would put some focus on it

[@1stUniqueName]

I think this is a tiny tiny feature. Emba ran out of things to show, and it started to show off mundane features.

[@codegearguru]

There is actually quite a lot in Delphi 12, just upload a video on WebP support that comes with Skia.

[@1stUniqueName]

@@codegearguru - You know that WebP was released almost 14 years ago, right? :)

[@ladislavtoral4286]

It should have been there a long time ago. It's 2024 and the €5000 software has outdated syntax from the COBOL days.

[@codegearguru]

Making changes to the language is very problematic, especially if you use third party tools that also need to parse the code, such as Model Maker Code Explorer (MMX) or Pascal Analyzer as these tools also need updating.

[@andrewbrown8463]

Embarrassingly I just learnt about the multi-paste feature from this video 😢