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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sk1tk3$v53$4 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> > $ 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).

Seriously, what's wrong with it?  If I want a comment about a logical 
name, having SHOW LOGICAL spit it out is very convenient.  Any 
application testing a logical name normally picks up the first 
translation (exception is a directory search list).  Even if further 
translations are used, the comment could be in the last one.