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

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In article <sjq1cj$2rc$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>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.

Good grief.

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