[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/23/2021 6:55 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 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?

Probably nobody today.

Arne