Jon Jensen wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > I would definitely like to see us adopt a proposal that is like
> > > here-documents to the extent that there's a family of possible
> > > terminator markers and not only one. But we'll have to adjust the
> > > syntax a little bit. If you don't like $$FOO, what else comes to mind?
> >
> > Couldn't we allow << at the beginning of the line to mean 'here' document?
>
> Even if that worked, it diverges so much from shell and Perl here document
> syntax (where it's customary to have it at the end of the line, or even in
> the middle), it wouldn't be any more familiar than anything else.
>
> I think Tom's $$FOO suggestion is fine -- it just takes getting used to.
Oh, sorry, I forgot 'here' documents don't have to start the line. I
was looking at the manual page and not thinking of the code I write with
here documents.
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