From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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 21:15:00 |
Message-ID: | 200309112115.h8BLF0107954@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Jan Wieck wrote:
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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!
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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