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From:
Zefram
Date:
September 11, 2010 08:20
Subject:
Re: Smoke [5.13.4] v5.13.4-207-g9ea1253 FAIL(m) openvms V8.4(IA64/2 cpu)
Message ID:
20100911152040.GG32401@lake.fysh.org
Craig A. Berry wrote:
>Thanks.  I was going to suggest s/paren_list/parenlist/ for symmetry
>with qwlist and because munge is both imprecise and derogatory,

The symmetry would be misleading: a qwlist is a single token, but a
paren_list is a multi-token grammatical construct.  Derogatory is fine,
this being a deprecated code path.

>FWIW, automated name shortening is available on VMS as a compiler
>switch,

It would be nice for embed.pl or something in the test suite to check the
symbols for VMS compatibility.  They need to be no longer than 31 chars,
and unique when case-folded.  (Geez, what do you guys do for C++?)

-zefram

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