Re: Fwd: polite request about syntax

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Ricardo Malafaia <rmalafaia(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fwd: polite request about syntax
Date: 2006-09-15 16:43:46
Message-ID: 20060915164346.GN525@alvh.no-ip.org
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Ricardo Malafaia wrote:
> On 9/15/06, Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> wrote:
> >> What happens then when it sees something like a double variable
> >> interpolation as in $$foobar? ;)
> >
> >Then you use $FOO$ (or something else that doesn't appear in your
> >code) as the delimiter--you're not limited to just $$.
>
> clever. still, i don't believe such variety of syntax and even
> multitude of language support would do well with most Windows shops.
> but that's not really your fault...

Well, there's always MS Access ...

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