| From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: massive quotes? |
| Date: | 2003-09-11 20:46:42 |
| Message-ID: | 3F60DF32.5090202@Yahoo.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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!
Jan
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