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- From: brennan@tango.cchs.su.oz.au (Luke Brennan)
- Subject: Re: writing lexical functions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.020257.1@tango.cchs.su.oz.au>
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- Organization: Cumberland College of Health Sciences
- References: <Bz3KEC.Es2@wm.estec.esa.nl> <12DEC199200264446@spades.aces.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 01:52:57 GMT
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- In article <12DEC199200264446@spades.aces.com>, gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546) writes:
- > In article <Bz3KEC.Es2@wm.estec.esa.nl>, hevans@estcs1.dnet.estec.esa.nl writes...
- > #
- > #Can anyone out there tell me if it is possible to write my own lexical
- > #functions, and how?
- >
- [...]
- > The answer to your implied question is NO, you cannot normally
- > write your own lexical functions into DCL.
- [...]
- >
- > Ehud
-
- Why precisely? No hooks? Yes, but undocumented? Totally impossible?
- 'you cannot normally'.. okay - so what about NOT normally? :-)
- Isn't this the kind of thing an internals guru would *eat* ? !!
- Seems like an incredible oversight for VMS - I recall even PRIMOS
- had that kind of thing standard in the RTL..
-
- Just asking.. Luke.
-