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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <10b3d783-2333-438e-ac3e-7c07f4635eca at googlegroups.com>,
pcanagnostopoulos at gmail.com writes: 

> 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. 

But it is always good style to include the trailing apostrophe.  Is it 
actually documented (in this case or in others) that it is supposed to 
work without it?