[Info-vax] Logical names, was: Re: Command Procedure Pipe output to a variable

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/8/2021 2:07 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-10-08, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> As for the use of logical names in managing apps, the sheer unmitigated
>> joy of having some logical name silently and out-of-band defined
>> somewhere else utterly derailing production processing in some weird
>> way is something I will always treasure, of course.
> 
> Perhaps what we need is a schema for logical name tables so that
> only expected logical names can appear in a table. :-)
> 
> On a more serious note, does anyone else wish you could attach a comment
> to a logical name definition so that you could see in SHOW LOGICAL
> what the purpose of a logical is ?
> 
> The comment could also include the valid values as well if the logical
> is used for configuration.

That would be nice.

And it should not be that hard to implement. It will use more memory,
but memory is bought by the GB these days.

Arne