[Info-vax] Coding style in the VMS's

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-09-30, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 1:11:35 PM UTC+13, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> I doubt anyone still wants Hollerith constants.
>
> I remember in my younger days thinking how neat they were. You could have any (printable, at least) characters you liked in the string, no escaping conventions necessary.

So it turns out you are a fixed-length field type of person after all. :-)

Simon.

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