On Mon, Dec 5, 2016, at 21:21, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > They are languages in their own right, with their own rules. > > The Windows command prompt being one of the weakest -- it doesn't > support arithmetic and local variables, nor (to my knowledge) looping > constructs. BAT files are limited to something like 9 parameters (which > may > be the only argument for not expanding wildcards at the command line > level).
There are only nine that you can name explicitly, but there's no obstacle to handling more with shift or %*. Also, there is a 'for' loop, though the syntax is somewhat arcane (and you can always loop with if/goto) It can do arithmetic with 'set /a', and there is a 'setlocal' command for local variable scopes. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
