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To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Outdated note
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:15:56 -0400
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Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
> On 4.1.2.1. String Constants, the following note appears:
> Note: While ordinary strings now support C-style backslash escapes,
> future versions will generate warnings for such usage and eventually
> treat backslashes as literal characters to be standard-conforming.
> That future version is 8.2, so the note should be updated to reflect it.
Done; I ended up rewriting the whole subsection. I notice though that
the following subsection about dollar quoting could really do with some
rework too, because it implicitly assumes that backslashes are special
in ordinary string literals. The example it gives to show the
usefulness of dollar quoting for nested literals is really not very
compelling at all if backslashes aren't special :-(. Can anyone come
up with a better example that depends only on avoiding multiplied
single quotes?
regards, tom lane
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