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

[Chris Townley]

On 31/05/2021 13:53, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
> 
It was sometimes useful to add an incorrect character to avoid a symbol 
definition - for example deletes


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Chris Townley