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

[Dave Froble]

On 5/31/2021 8:58 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-05-28, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> Either know what you want to do, and do it right, or, don't do it at all.
>>
>> For someone as security conscious as you claim to be, you come up with
>> some questionable ideas.
>>
>
> $ set response/mode=good_natured
>
> Just because you haven't learnt any of those new ideas over the
> last 30 years doesn't automatically make them questionable. :-)
>
> $ set response/mode=normal
>
> Giving a list of valid options when something is ambiguous: good idea.
>
> Automatically replacing a mistyped command: terrible, terrible idea.
>
> Simon.
>

As a parallel example, there are two words, when used in aviation, that 
quite often result in disaster.

WATCH THIS!

I'd think similar results might happen when not being precise with 
instructions to a computer.

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