[Info-vax] Can DCL be enhanced to report why a qualifier is ambiguous ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-05-28, arca... at gmail.com <arcarlini at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 28 May 2021 at 20:06:14 UTC+1, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> By extension, I should also point out I consider the 4-character thing 
>> in DCL to be a terrible idea as well. :-)
>
>
> There was an early release not that pointed out that the four-character thing specifically didn't apply to qualifiers that started with NO, those needed 6 characters.
>
> I think the motivating example was MOUNT/NOUN[LOAD] which became ambiguous when /UNIT appeared.
>
> I don't suppose 6 is  much better than 4 for you though :-)
>

You assume correctly. :-)

If you enter the extra characters, and they are wrong, then the command
should be outright rejected.

Simon.

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