Re: Shell Central

[Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>]

I definitely agree about CALL.  I still try to avoid CALL in favor of
function references because the syntax is such a bad joke.  Abutment,
not having a similarity in PL/I didn't cause any problems for me; I
mostly use || anyhow, and explicitly concatenate desired spaces.
SIGNAL is different enough that I don't have a problem with it.  I do
wish it had been GOTO when used for that purpose though; I don't think
SIGNAL is clear enough on what it's doing.

My biggest problem is having to put a comma at the end of lines being
continued.  I'm not used to it, and it's hard to see on the screen,
especially when what's being continued is a comma-separated list.  I'd
rather see semicolons as line delimiters, or '\' for continuation as in
C, or almost anything else.

"Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" wrote:
> 
> In <al3pt6$7ph$1@panix3.panix.com>, on 09/03/2002
>    at 10:07 PM, jbrock@panix.com (John Brock) said:
> 
> >Can you give us some examples?
> 
> The ones that seem to cause the most confusion are abutment, CALL,
> SIGNAL and uninitialized variables.