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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/18/2019 9:21 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-03-17, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 11:49:41 AM UTC-4, Howard Taylor wrote:
>>> Something I would love to see is the ability to easily use quotes (both single and double) in strings. Such a pity the single quote was selected for symbol substition.
>>
>> Define "easily"
>>
>> $ write sys$output "Print a double quote "" followed by a single quote ''''"
>> Print a double quote " followed by a single quote '
> 
> Using an escape character is more readable IMHO. That would allow you
> to write your example as something like this:
> 
> $ write sys$output "Print a double quote \" followed by a single quote \'"

There are two traditional ways to handle quotes in quotes:
* escaping
* doubling

Some languages use the first, some use the second and some use both.

I do not see DCL using doubling of double quotes as anything unusual.

The single quotes handling is unusual.

Arne