Re: Conventions

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 02:01:40PM -0300, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2022-Jan-26, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 06:45:47PM -0800, Dave Stewart wrote:
> > > I'm good with it.  Thank you!
> >
> > OK, updated patch attached. I don't think we even show TCL syntax
> > anywhere anymore, so I removed that text, rather than moving it.
>
> We do here:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/pltcl-dbaccess.html
> Maybe not worth bothering, though. I think it should be obvious to
> someone already familiar with the language; and for those who aren't,
> they probably won't be reading this page.

Oh, that helps. I looked for '?' in pltcl.sgml and when I couldn't find
any, I think the use of the question-mark syntax was gone, but I do see
it in the output:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/pltcl-dbaccess.html

and then I found this in stylesheet-common.xsl:

<!-- Special support for Tcl synopses -->

<xsl:template match="optional[(at)role='tcl']">
--> <xsl:text>?</xsl:text>
<xsl:call-template name="inline.charseq"/>
<xsl:text>?</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

The attached patch moves the TCL syntax mention to a more appropriate
place.

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