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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

glen herrmannsfeldt skrev den 2015-04-30 22:39:
> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> wrote:
>> I think in any new DCL replacement language, the leading dollar on
>> every command line should not be required in command procedures.
>
>> Instead, if you want to pass inline data embedded in a command procedure
>> to a program, new-DCL could either pass the following lines up to some
>> specified EOD marker, or (my preferred option), the actual inline data
>> itself would be the one to be prefixed with a special character instead
>> of the new-DCL commands.
>
> It  has been some years since I last wrote a DCL script file,
> but I thought that the $ wasn't required.

It depends what's on the lines.

This works:

----------------
show time
show time
show time
----------------

This does not work:

----------------
show time
show time
set term /inq
show time
----------------

This *does* work:

----------------
show time
show time
set term /inq
$ show time
----------------

The middle example gives:
$ @a
    1-MAY-2015 12:36:02
    1-MAY-2015 12:36:02
%DCL-W-SKPDAT, image data (records not beginning with "$") ignored

and the problem is the last "show time" command.

So "it depends"...

Jan-Erik.