At 02:25 PM 7/25/95 -0700, Jeff Vance wrote:
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>We have a long history of preserving compatibility.  We make many customers
>happy when their old programs, JCL, UDCs, etc run the same way on a new
>release of the OS.  In fact they expect it.
 
I'm not sure I see how the assumption of unspecified parameters as an un-quoted
info string would neccessarily preclude the use of the old style ';info="..."'
 
>We could reduce the chances of
>a conflict more by testing if the 2nd parm is a number and if not assume
>an un-quoted info= string??  However this may lead to less predictable
>behavior and therefore may not be desireable. If a control variable is used
>the default may have to be the "old" way.
 
I wouldn't mind too much if the default was the 'old' way.
 
In Unix, users can select from a number 'CI' shells which provide a wide
range of differing conveniences and capabilities. Come to think of it isn't
that what the POSIX shell is supposed to be about?
 
 
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