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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

84.0. "Permit arguments to terminators" by CUPOLA::HAKKARAINEN (Astray into the future) Tue Mar 10 1987 11:52

    It would be quite helpful to be able to specify an argument to
    <endcondition> and other such terminators. For example, with a long
    section boxed by a conditional, it's often easy to become confused
    about what is being ended with <endcondition>:
    
    
    <condition>(foo)
    
     .
    [ acres of text]
     .
    [hectares of text]
     .
     
    <endcondition>
    
    Being able to make a note, as in, <endcondition>(foo)
    is a fair bit simpler than  <comment>(* end of foo condition *)
    
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84.1laterVAXUUM::KOHLBRENNERTue Mar 10 1987 13:438
    Nice idea, but if we allowed a "comment only" arg on <endcondition>,
    someone would want us to match it against the arg on <condition>,
    and then someone would want...   Good stuff for V1.x or V2.0...
    
    <endcondition><comment>(foo)  isn't too hard is it?
    
    bill
    
84.2AUTHOR::WELLCOMESteveThu Mar 12 1987 09:354
    Wishlist, again...
    
    It would be nice if DOCUMENT conditionals had an IF(NOT)/ELSE structure
    and nesting capability the way DSRPLUS does.