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

David Jones osuvman50 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 09:21:43 EDT 2021


On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 1:38:06 AM UTC-4, Lawrence D’Oliveiro 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.

I still think they are neat, and wish SQL supported it.



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