From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jon Jensen <jon(at)endpoint(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: massive quotes? |
Date: | 2003-09-12 14:10:20 |
Message-ID: | 10663.1063375820@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> writes:
> ... then @autoconf me harder@ could be used as the start and ending
> token,
Hm, I should have read your message more carefully --- I missed the bit
at the middle where you propose nearly the same idea I had ;-). But the
flex patterns you wrote don't actually support this do they?
> @(@[^\n]+\n|[^(at)]*@)
> %(%[^\n]+\n|[^%]*%)
> $($[^\n]+\n|[^$]*$)
Doesn't quite seem to do what we're talking about here.
I don't see a need for three of these; that just eats up lexical token
space. Is there a reason for the $ variant not to be enough? In any
case, @ and % are valid (and popular) operator names in Postgres, so we
could not use them for this purpose without removing that meaning, which
would be painful.
regards, tom lane
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