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  • From: "Jackson, Craig" <Craig.Jackson AT cengage.com>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] ignore --tdsver
  • Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 23:53:55 -0400

Craig A. Berry replied to JKL:
> > Larry Wall mentioned a similar artifact once in writing about Perl 6.
> > He remembered IIRC a setting in VMS mumble something like SET EXTENDED
> > ON to make it DTRT. He observed that thereafter *every* script needed
> > that boilerplate in its preamble. One gets the sense Larry is not a fan
> > of boilerplate or, for that matter, preambles.
>
> I'd be curious what the VMS boilerplate was as I can't think of anything
> like that, though the details are not relevant to your
> point. In the Perl 5 world, a great many bits have been shed in arguments
> over whether people should continue having to write "use
> strict;" at the top of their Perl programs or whether some future version
> of the language will have that built in, breaking lots of
> existing code in the process. Balancing forward progress and compatibility
> is never easy, as is somewhat humorously discussed today
> at <http://raganwald.posterous.com/javas-comb-over>.

It sounded to me like he was talking about SET PROCESS/PARSE_STYLE=EXTENDED.
(Writing it out completely for clarity.) However, I doubt that most VMS hands
routinely put that at the top of their scripts.

Craig Jackson




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