On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 12:58:35 +0000, Peter Relson wrote: ></snip> >... If you want my guess (without trying to figure out if true or not), >support for single quotation marks came later, was done by someone who didn't >know about the 4th positional parameter who didn't notice in the doc update >that there were two cases that this doc update applies to (even though the >code update covered only one). > "didn't know ... though the code update covered only one" sounds like a case for an RFE to fix the omission of the 4th parameter.
A responsible design would have employed a reusable lexical analyzer so a code update would have applied to all parameters alike. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
