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

Phillip Helbig undress to reply helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
Fri Mar 22 03:58:18 EDT 2019


In article <4e4d7baa-2b19-438b-bb3c-afee91b7fc89 at googlegroups.com>,
pcanagnostopoulos at gmail.com writes: 

> 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.

As long as it is not documented to work (I don't think that it is), it 
should be fixed.  Otherwise, one could fix no bugs at all, since someone 
might rely on the undocumented, wrong behaviour.




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