On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:02:00 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: >With a caller-provided buffer of caller-chosen length, nearly silent >truncation, e.g., with only a return-code setting, seems to me to be >eminently tolerable. > Indeed. I took an unintended meaning from the phrase "fixed length" which appeared earlier in this thread, assuming it to exclude the possibility of a "caller-chosen length".
>Nothing more is needed. > Perhaps. Would this hypothetical enhancement extend the syntax of symbol names? Might this introduce behavior changes unanticipated by end users? Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
