Re: Additional Material for Press Page

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 09:53:06PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> On Saturday 16 October 2004 20:39, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 04:58:46PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > Functions:  PostgreSQL functions now support emacs-style $dollar$
> > > quoting allowing users to avoid messy nested quotes.  Further, as an
> > > benefit of the new Savepoints, PL/pgSQL functions now have limited
> > > exception-handling ability using the EXCEPTION clause.
> >
> > "emacs-style"?  I thought dollar quoting was invented here.  Would it be
> > good to detail the enhancements to pl/perl here?  What about pl/php?
>
> I think the functionality original came from trying to emulate perl-style here
> documents, but either way as a vi user I now dislike the feature just on the
> insinuation that it is emacs-style :-)

Yeah, I'm a vi(m) user too so it seems unfair :-).  But dollar quoting
certainly goes much further than here-docs! (which AFAIK were invented
way before perl anyway, weren't they?)

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