[Info-vax] puzzled by DCL symbol substitution

[AEF]

On Jan 10, 9:21 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <c73fe9c1-1b60-4490-8533-2da5c4834... at o12g2000vbd.googlegroups.com>, Lester Dreckow <lester.drec... at gmail.com> writes:
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> > For years I have been wanting to slim down DCL procedure entry and
> > exit comments.  Now I can do ...
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>    Years ago, in an attempt to offload our 11/780 from too many DCL
>    "programmers", I moved the prolog comments to the epilog, preceeded
>    by an unconditional $EXIT, in the hopes that DCL at least sometimes
>    wouldn't have to parse all those comment lines.
>
>    Since I got my first Alpha, I haven't bothered.

When I was using slow VAXes, I timed such things. Can't remember the
results, though.

AEF