Re: massive quotes?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jon Jensen <jon@endpoint.com> writes:
> > Is there a reason not to use here documents?
> 
> The $$FOO proposal I put forward earlier was consciously modeled on
> here-documents.  We cannot use exactly the shell syntax for
> here-documents, though, mainly because we already have meaning assigned
> to strings like <<' (<< is already a standard operator, and the ' could
> be the start of an ordinary literal).
> 
> I would definitely like to see us adopt a proposal that is like
> here-documents to the extent that there's a family of possible
> terminator markers and not only one.  But we'll have to adjust the
> syntax a little bit.  If you don't like $$FOO, what else comes to mind?

Couldn't we allow << at the beginning of the line to mean 'here' document?

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