[Info-vax] turning verify on and off

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-02-03 13:54:58 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply said:

> Neither.  I'm just wondering if something could be done more elegantly.

If you wish a more elegant solution, then look to reduce and simplify, 
and to eliminate code.

Complex solutions to simple problems are usually the antithesis of elegance.


>> If the latter, I rewrote
>> sys$manager:sylogin.template and a few other DCL procedures a while
>> back, and you can see the one-liner that I tend to use in that.  Stick
>> that line inside a loop, and you're off and verifying.
> 
> Yes.  My procedure differs mainly in avoiding hard-coding the name of
> the logical and turning it on in some and off in others in a call tree.

Is the hard-coding of the debugging logical name a problem you actually 
have to solve in the DCL code?

Or is that DCL trading off added complexity and reduced elegance for 
some other benefit that's not obvious to me?


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