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

[Dave Froble]

On 10/8/2021 3:02 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.
>

An apt response.

One does not, if one is competent, hardcode data into a program. 
External tables are much more appropriate for that.

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