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

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 6:44:31 AM UTC+13, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> What about a search list? If not used as a directory spec, then the 
> second translation is essentially a comment. 

What you want is a more structured key-value store. How long can values be? Maybe they could hold an entire JSON5 object <https://json5.org/>.

Then it turns out that their volatility becomes a bug, not a feature ...