In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 12/22/2010
at 12:48 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]>
said:
>IMNHO, the parser should be rewritten so that upon encountering a
>quote, a flag should be set, and reset upon encountering the next
>quote. In that way, when encountering a delimiter, while this flag
>is set, can then be treated as a literal string.
That would break any code that expected to handle unmatched quotes. It
would create more nasty surprises than the current situation.
>It seemed to me that delimiter act as an overiding thing to stop
>parsing at all.
The ISPF command line parser doesn't, and shouldn't, treat ' and " as
delimiters. Consider someone who writes an EDIT macro to insert text.
%INSERT .ZF I don't like it.'%INSERT .Q He doesn't either.
Doing as you suggest would leave the user scratching his head,
swearing, or both.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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