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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-05-03, Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> wrote:
> Op zondag 3 mei 2015 14:10:07 UTC+2 schreef Simon Clubley:
>> 
>> And what if there's a $ as the first character of the data ? :-)
>> 
>> (That's the point I was making above.)
>> 
> Aren't the DECK and EOD verbs in DCL available to handle that situation?
> Besides there's DECK/DOLLAR too.

Yes, they are, but the idea was to try and come up with a mechanism in
which they are never required, regardless of what is in the input data.

> That combination served me well and though the merits of DCL scripts 
> without a leading $ are clear, I'd rather not get confused... (old age
> kicking in?).

:-)

Simon.

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