[Info-vax] A DCL wish list of sorts...

[pcanagnostopoulos at gmail.com]

On Monday, March 18, 2019 at 9:21:50 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> Using an escape character is more readable IMHO. That would allow you
> to write your example as something like this:
> 
> $ write sys$output "Print a double quote \" followed by a single quote \'"

Yes, an escape character would be better. To add one backward compatibly, we would have to add a declaration:

$ escape_char "\"


~~ Paul