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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

glen herrmannsfeldt skrev den 2015-05-03 02:51:
> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> wrote:
>
> (snip)
>
>> Maybe; I am way open to alternative ideas.
>
>> My thoughts were to come up with a way to drop the leading $ from
>> commands while retaining the ability to have inline data being fed
>> to a program.
>
>> I did think the same as you, but I was also wanting to devise some
>> mechanism which didn't require the script writer to specify some end
>> of data sequence which the script writer needs to know isn't going
>> to be seen within the data.
>
> You can already do that.  You only need the $ on the line after
> the last input line...

Not sure what you meen with "input line" here.
As far as I understand, you need the $ on any line
after a line that is not an internal DCL command
like "SHOW TIME". After a "SET TERM" you need the
$ on the next line, even if SET TIME does not have
any "input lines"...




> As far as I know, you can put that $ on
> a line by itself.
>
> -- glen
>