aperez@cvbnet.UUCP (Arturo Perez x6739) (01/17/91)
> Actually, a generalization of this notion is quite attractive. > Suppose, by analogy with C prototypes and coersions, that the commands > the shell knows about have arguments of specific type. This allows > provision for coersion of things of type string (which the shell > naturally deals in) to things of type (say) filename, or filename list, > or whatnot (which would naturally involve wildcard expansion). > > Wayne Throop ...!mcnc!aurgate!throop Hey! When was the last time you worked under VMS? If you "correctly" write AND install a program under VMS the DCL command interpreter has the capability of doing what you describe above. The "correctly" above means that you have to use the VMS command parsing utilities in order to allow DCL to "help" you out. Arturo Perez ComputerVision, a division of Prime aperez@cvbnet.prime.com Too much information, like a bullet through my brain -- The Police