On 31/08/2022 10:02 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
The DFSORT command syntax is dreadful -- too positional. It's hard to read ...,keyword,value,keyword,value,... Considerably better would be ,keyword(value), or ,keyword=value,...
I'm not sure that it is that bad for defining a sort, but it does get complex when it is extended to do other tasks.
There seem to be various "tricks" used which work, but are not exactly intuitive.
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