Joel Burton writes:

> Is there any standardized way of handling the single-quotes within function
> definition? Rather than doubling them up (which can make for very messy code
> when your scripting language uses single quotes!), allowing another symbol
> to be used, with that symbol be declared in the CREATE FUNCTION line?
> Interbase uses a system like this: you can set the delimiter to anything you
> want and use that instead of '.

I think we need something like that.  How exactly does Interbase "set" the
delimiter?  Keep in mind that our lexer and parser are static.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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