Re: massive quotes?

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!


Jan

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