[Info-vax] Removing the leading $ from commands in a new DCL language

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-04-30, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> If you allow/foster commands to run without the $, it becomes far less
> obvious where an input stream ends and DCL parsing begins again. If you
> add a specific string such s "EOD" as the end of file market, and you
> forget it, that INTALL command will eat up the rest of your command
> procedure.
>

That's why in my alternate scheme, it's the inline data which has a
prefix character instead (which is stripped by new-DCL before the
rest of the line is passed to the program.)

Simon.

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