Tom Lane kirjutas P, 14.09.2003 kell 18:58: > "Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
Considering that we use $$ instead of quotes we could call it dollarring instead of quoting ;) Or if we were politicians we could call it "memorable contentful meta-quoting" to squish any opposition in the bud ;) ;) I've done lot of programming in python, and while the python tradition generally calls for exactly one syntax for one concept, they have at least 4 ways for quoting -- ' and " for one-line strings and ''' and """ for multi-line ones. While this could have been transferrable to Pl/PgSQL, it would not fly for full pl/python. So I would propose "adaptable quoting" or "multi-language-aware" (or -savvy for mac-heads) quoting, or just dollar-quoting, $-quoting or $x$ quoting. None of these is completely self-explanatory but that is what TFM is for. To be nearly self-explanatory for we could use '"$[a-z]*$"-quoting' but then someone would have to post .wav files with the correct spelling :) double-dollar quoting feels good to say aloud ... -------- Hannu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend