In
<cae1xxdhdqs_qmqcs0m1fpvbxbf9dov4-rnb5bmds6p9fog-...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 01/22/2014
at 11:27 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>Tom Marchant wrote
><begin extract>
>There might be cases where an 8 character symbol name won't work.
>For example, when a symbol represents a volume serial number used for
>indirect cataloging
></end extract>
>and here he seems to me to be confusing the length of a symbol's
>identifier with that of a symbol's value.
Only because you don't understand and can't be bothered to look it up.
RTFM.
>&CHARVAL8, for example, can have a value less than eight
>characters in length, even a nul value; and conversely the
>[dubious] symbol &s can have a value more than one character
>in length.
Neither of which has any relevance to what symbol can be used where.
Tom is, of course, correct:
"The symbol name must be specified as a single, simple (not
substringed) symbol of no more than six characters including the
leading ampersand. If a symbol is intended to represent a
six-character volume serial number, the symbol must be six characters
long and the ending period must be omitted."
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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