[Info-vax] C99 updates to CRTL

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-07-30 kl. 23:26, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
> On 2019-07-30 20:06:53 +0000, Hans Bachner said:
> 
>> Jan-Erik Söderholm schrieb am 30.07.2019 um 19:27:
>>> Den 2019-07-30 kl. 17:12, skrev Dave Froble:
>>>> On 7/30/2019 9:58 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>>>> On 2019-07-29 17:50:54 +0000, John Reagan said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Monday, July 29, 2019 at 12:21:28 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>>>> App management and configuration with logical names—other than for 
>>>>> device redirection, and that usage is only marginally better than app 
>>>>> config data...
>>>>
>>>> I use logical names to refer to mailbox names...
>>>
>>> All those are perfectly valid uses of logical names. ...
>>>
>>> Maybe just ignore the local name rants some enjoys to spread around?
>>
>> +1.
> 
> I suspect y'all would like the replacement, as it'd likely have to handle 
> both device redirection, and configuration data.
> 
> It is always interesting it is to see how difficult it is to recognize 
> problems within longstanding design patterns.
> 
> One of the reasons why new staffers can be helpful.  They're often less 
> inured to the existing patterns.
> 
> It's unfortunately routine to see folks that haven't adopted 
> immediately-beneficial features.
> 
> Variously features that were added twenty years ago.
> 

I'm not sure I'm following what you are saying here. Replacement?

Anyway, my point is that I find it very convenient and powerful
that I can (just as an example) write some application that takes
a "file name" as a CLI parameter, and it actually doesn't matter if
it is a physical filename or a logical name, the parameter can be
used directly as-is in the OPEN function with no further checks.

How do you do that without the built-in support for logical name
lookup and without additional code to check if the supplied file
name parameter actually was a physical file name or some "symbol"
that has to be first looked up or converted in some way?