From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f891f,84341d9bfd06c34b X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,7fc5f2ed2567dae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,7fc5f2ed2567dae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-04 16:37:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!dca6-feed2.news.algx.net!allegiance!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.nyroc.rr.com!cyclone-out.nyroc.rr.com!twister.nyroc.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D7698E0.A17F1E8@yahoo.com> From: Peter Flass X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pl1 Subject: Re: Shell Central References: <3d72b4c2$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <3d75a657$4$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 23:37:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.194.50.82 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.nyroc.rr.com 1031182675 24.194.50.82 (Wed, 04 Sep 2002 19:37:55 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 19:37:55 EDT Organization: Road Runner Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.misc:3712 comp.lang.ada:28746 comp.lang.pl1:3012 Date: 2002-09-04T23:37:55+00:00 List-Id: 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 , 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.