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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <563bb1da-3809-49c1-847c-c3363677e008 at googlegroups.com>,
pcanagnostopoulos at gmail.com writes: 

> On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 2:36:42 PM UTC-4, Phillip Helbig (undress 
> to reply) wrote:
> 
> > But it is always good style to include the trailing apostrophe.  Is it=20
> > actually documented (in this case or in others) that it is supposed to=
> > work without it?
> 
> Interesting. I would say that it is better style to leave off the trailing 
> apostrophe in order to reduce clutter. It is certainly documented that the 
> trailing apostrophe is optional outside of string literals. It's not 
> required in string literals except at the end. I don't have access to the 
> doc set to read the official rules.

Clutter?  Code should be clear.  A few characters more, some comment 
lines, etc are "clutter" but more than worth the trouble.

$ SEARCH X.X "now is the time

The above also works if I leave off the trailing ", perhaps for the same 
reason that leaving off the trailing ' sometimes works.  But I think 
that neither is good style.