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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-10-11, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <sk1suh$v53$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>
>> > $ define foobar something /comment="bla bla bla"
>> >
>> > would of course be optional and many may forget it.
>> >
>> > But maybe the default should not be "" but:
>> >     f$getjpi(0, "username") + " " + f$env("procedure")
>> >
>> >:-)
>> >
>> 
>> :-)
>> 
>> Stick a f$time() in there and then you can have the "Mark, what the
>> hell were you doing yesterday afternoon ???!!!???" discussion. :-) :-)
>
> I've actually seen a real-world application where the username was part 
> of the logical-name translation, in order to see who did what when (the 
> logical is defined by a procedure which various users could execute).
>
> What about a search list?  If not used as a directory spec, then the 
> second translation is essentially a comment.
>
> $ define strict_behaviour true,"just testing"
> $ sh log strict_behaviour
>    "STRICT_BEHAVIOUR" = "TRUE" (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
>         = "just testing"
>

Yuck, yuck, yuck!!! (And a seriously broken approach IMHO).

Simon.

PS: Sorry, Phillip. :-)

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