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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-10-09 kl. 01:06, skrev Lawrence D’Oliveiro:
> On Saturday, October 9, 2021 at 7:07:17 AM UTC+13, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 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 ?

No, better to keep the comments/documentation for each logical name
in the command file where the logical is created.

> 
> What do you know, Unix-style text configuration files usually allow for ample comments.

A "configuration file" is just a file where you setup your configuration.

Doesn't matter if that file is read directly by the application or if the
file is run at application startup and defining a bunch of logical names
that are then used by the application.

It is still just a "configuration file". And it can have as many
comments/documentation as you like.

> And they can be managed with common text editors and other regular
> file-manipulation tools, including comparing changes with diff(1).

You could just as well describe VMS here also, of course. No difference.