"David Bolen" <db3l@[...].com>  wrote in message
news:u8zh4u0b6.fsf@[...]..
>  Dale Strickland-Clark <dale@[...].uk> writes:
> 
>  > I guess what I had in mind was a simple but effective equivelent
>  > that I used to use with BCPL. A function called rdargs, which I
>  > think also became part of AmigaDOS
> 
>  If you do get a moment to point to any reference or just write up a
>  quick summary, I'm sure there would be some implementation suggestions
>  available.
> 
>  Presumably any parsing template still has to deal with issues such as
>  flagging options (optional pieces) versus standard arguments,
>  delimiters and quoting them, etc...  But there's obviously also
>  multiple ways to make choices about each of those issues.
> 
Dale:

Was this the one that allowed to you define command lines like

    COPY FROM <file>  TO <file>

and variations could be deduced from the noise words? I seem to remember a
college chum of mine working in BCPL with a scheme like this, circa 1978,
but have only this fading memory.

what-was-i-saying-ly y'rs  - steve
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