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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <ss9lil$764$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> 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.

Interestingly, I was searching a .tex file.  \<anything> are TeX control 
codes.  :-|