Much of this discussion seems to illustrate a risk in using character
literals: it's difficult to refer explicitly to their length attribute.
One could write
MVC Target(L'=C'very long string'),=C'very long string')
hoping you made the two instances identical. It seems preferable to me t
John Ehrman has made the crucial point. Character terms are problematic
My personal preference, predictably, is to use the facilities of the macro
language. Once a character set symbol has been defined all of that
language's facilities for concatenation, substring construction, and
character co
