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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <mhvgkc$2l7$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> > 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.)

Of all the things one might want to change in DCL, this would be WAY 
down on my list.  WAY down.