[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 <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.
>

It's not deterministic and not robust. A comment field OTOH is.

Simon.

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