Re: massive quotes?

Tom Lane wrote:

> "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> I think calling it 'here-document' quoting is possibly unwise - it is
>> sufficiently different from here documents in shell and perl contexts to
>> make it confusing.
> 
> I agree.  I've tried to think of a better alternative name, but without
> much success.
> 
>> We could call it meta-quoting, or alternative quoting, maybe.
> 
> Those seem pretty unmemorable and content-free, though.  Any other ideas
> out there?

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> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
> PS: btw, I have realized that the seemingly obvious algorithm for
> choosing a delimiter string for given text is wrong.  I had imagined it
> as "try $$, $Q$, $QQ$, $QQQ$, etc, until you find a delimiter not
> present in the given text string".  This is not right because, for
> example, if the string ends with $Q then $Q$ is not a usable delimiter
> ($Q$...$Q$Q$ would be misparsed).  The simplest correct algorithm is
> "try $, $Q, $QQ, $QQQ, etc until you find a string not present in the
> given text string; then use that with a $ appended".
> 
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