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

[pcanagnostopoulos at gmail.com]

On Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 1:54:00 AM UTC-4, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> Clutter?  Code should be clear.  A few characters more, some comment 
> lines, etc are "clutter" but more than worth the trouble.

I think it's entirely reasonable if you want to code the trailing apostrophe all the time. I'm used to substitution facilities that never have a trailing substitution indicator (e.g., assemblers), so my tendency is the other way.

> $ 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.

That works? Well, that's just a bug that should be fixed. Of course, now that would be backward incompatible.

~~ Paul