[Info-vax] SET SHADOW SYNTAX

glen herrmannsfeldt gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Thu Oct 20 03:36:05 EDT 2011


Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiclothesvax.de> wrote:

(snip)
> One could parse this as implying that parentheses are always required,
> but OTOH if there is only one required keyword, and one specifies only
> that keyword, then it is not a list (is a list of one thing still a
> list?) or at least I would expect the behaviour to be consistent with 
> AFAIK all of DCL.

I don't remember trying this with DCL, but that is the way
that IBM JCL works.  If only the first subparameter, then no 
parens, otherwise parens.

   LABEL=(,NL)  DISP=OLD, DISP=(,KEEP) VOL=SER=MYDISK

-- glen



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