[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

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In article <2a79c8d5-1812-4fcb-a031-b30815399b06n at googlegroups.com>, =?UTF-8?Q?Lawrence_D=E2=80=99Oliveiro?= <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com> writes:
>On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 11:45:15 PM UTC+13, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>[intricacies of semantics of SET DEFAULT]
>> So, there we have it. Isn't this brilliant? :) I run into this "gotcha" 
>> every now and then when I don't remember to place a trailing colon on a 
>> logical name, too. As far as I know, this behaviour isn't documented. 
>> Apparently the VMS developers never make this "error", so never see the 
>> problem. :)
>
>Could be worse. Imagine, for the sake of argument, that somebody designed an OS where you could only use a single letter to name each disk device.
>
>Crazy, I know. Nobody in their right mind would propose such a thing, would they? I mean, would you entrust mission-critical business functions to an OS that could only handle 26 drive letters?

ROTFLMFAO!

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