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

[pcanagnostopoulos at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 12:58:03 PM UTC-4, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 3/20/2019 12:46 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> > Just>bumped into a dumb menuing bug in VMSLICENSE (though easily worked
> > around) too,  
> 
> 
> We like fixing bugs; what's the issue?

One is the fact that a substitution at the end of a string literal must have the trailing apostrophe, even though it is not required elsewhere in the string.

$ write sys$output "This has one ''subst1 and then one at the end ''subst2'"

That trailing apostrophe is required or the substitution does not occur. One could argue, perhaps, that fixing this would be backward incompatible. This is a day 0 bug.

~~ Paul