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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-05-02, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> wrote:
>> 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.  As far as I know, you can put that $ on
> a line by itself. 
>

And what if there's a $ as the first character of the data ? :-)

(That's the point I was making above.)

Simon.

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