On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 07:47:08 -0500, John wrote: >Use STRING when specifying delimited strings that use numbers, letters, >or # as the delimiter character.
This is just a sadistic reminder that we shouldn't have been using S all along to delimit a string starting with "TRING ", isn't it? I'd worry about reserving a default LINEDIT character like #, though. That seems like something a lot of people might have assumed would be safe for use in delimiting user input. Haven't we all run into execs where people use "#CP" thinking it's the universal way to ensure that a command gets passed to CP? Does STRING belong in the SPECS syntax, or the delimitedstring syntax? Several other stages require STRING as an alternative to ANYOF. They would continue to accept the same arguments if STRING was made the default interpretation instead, and added to the delimitedstring syntax. ¬R http://users.bestweb.net/~notr/cats "Would you like to watch a movie about George Wendt while eating Chinese food with a cat?" --Andy Simmons
