[Info-vax] Suggestion: Enhance DCL to support proper escape quoting.

[Simon Clubley]

This suggestion follows the current discussion about using special
characters as data, which shows just how horrible DCL is when it
comes to using special characters as data in a command line.

How difficult would it be to alter DCL to add modern style quoting
of reserved characters ?

In bash, escaping a special character is simple - you just add a
backslash in front of the special character, so ' would become \'
instead. I think that's vastly better and cleaner than how it is
done in DCL.

What do you think ?

On another unrelated question, does anyone here use brace expansion
in bash and if so, how useful do you find it ? For example, typing:

	simon{1,2}.txt

as a filename argument would create a command line which replaced the
above with:

	simon1.txt simon2.txt

Would anyone find that useful for DCL ? I find it _very_ useful in bash.

Simon.

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