[Info-vax] C99 stuff (Re: The Road to V9.0)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-06-10, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 1:54:06 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> You are going to have to learn that new DCL qualifier name anyway from
>> some mapping table in the documentation so you may as well just use
>> the native clang option name via the Unix style command line and have
>> done with it.
>> 
>
> To aid with that, I think we'll end up with an option of to print out the equivalent clang command option for a given DCL command.  
>

I think that is a very good idea indeed.

Since people will have to learn a new option name anyway they may
just as well use the same option name as everyone else does on
other operating systems instead of some artificial made-up DCL
qualifier that only has meaning on VMS.

Printing out the underlying command will help them with that and
using the same option name as everyone else uses will help when
it comes to looking online for help on the option in question.

BTW, this isn't the first time I've seen this, IIRC. Didn't RSTS/E
DCL have some option to print out the underlying CCL command when
processing a user's DCL command ?

Simon.

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