Glenn, STRING is an option on SPECs to suppress looking for anything else, including keywords.
The scanning of <inputRange> is unchanged. j. 2009/1/7 Glenn Knickerbocker <[email protected]>: > 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 >
