Re: massive quotes?

Jan Wieck wrote:
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>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> > Sounds good. I just think keywords in general are weird to use for
> > quoting. We use "'" for quoting, so something similar like another
> > operator combination would be nice. I have never been fond of the
> > here-document approach, though I can see the value of doing
> > here-documents in here-documents, though if we make the open and close
> > of the quote string different <--, -->, we can still do that, no?
> >
>
> The beauty of here-documents is that you specify your closing tag on a
> per usage base and can vary that depending on the content you need to
> enclose. Keep in mind that this literal mechanism is not only used for
> PL/pgSQL, but for other languages like PL/Tcl and PL/Perl as well.
> Imagine the pain for a Tcl programmer if we'd go with curly braces!

Oh, non-SQL languages. OK, I agree, we need HERE documents, and I think
we all agree it has to be done in the lexer.

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