Re: massive quotes?

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Sergio A. Kessler wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Too sad, all special chars are used up for operators....
>
>
> also '{' '}' are used ?
>
> I've only seen this in ACLs, so it might be usable. Tom, Bruce?

Something that includes "'" would be clearest. I thought of <' and '>,
but this would break:

if var <'yes'

I think {' and '} might work. Arrays are specified as '{val, val}',
which is safe because it is opposite of the suggested syntax. I can't
think of any case where you would use an opening brace, then a single
quote. Interestingly, it looks like a C braces:

CREATE FUNCTION test() ...
{'
x = 'no';
'}

Of course, this brings up a problem. What if we do:

CREATE FUNCTION test() ...
{'
x = '}text';
'}

Oops, two closing mega-quotes.

One clean way would be to use {' to start a quote, and }' to end it, so
we have:

CREATE FUNCTION test() ...
{'
x = 'text';
}'

which looks even better and this is safe because both braces in '}text}'
are seen in a quoted string:

CREATE FUNCTION test() ...
{'
x = '}text}';
}'

Also, I can't imagine anyone defining those as operators.

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