[Info-vax] Suggested enhancement: bypass symbol definitions when executing DCL commands

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/1/2021 1:38 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-06-01, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>> In article <s9584n$rps$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>> On 2021-05-31, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> DCL does have:
>>>>
>>>> $ set symbol/scope=(nolocal,noglobal)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not exactly viable for interactive use unfortunately. :-)
>>
>> It works interactively.  Try it.
> 
> It was more a comment on having to issue and then reverse the command
> potentially multiple times during an interactive session. Using /VERB
> does make it more viable thanks but that's still not perfect.

/VERB seems useful for COM files.

But I do not see a big difference interactively. It must be
extremely rare to use symbols in parameters/qualifier interactive.

Arne