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

[Dave Froble]

On 3/22/2019 3:58 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.
>

After a "fix", when the code does not work, there should be a clear 
message why not.  The worst would be it to just stop working.  Then 
there is the different error settings ....

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