Creation password prompt at runtime

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:23:50PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:44:28PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> [...]
> > > There is but a single routine to parse expressions.
> > 
> > If that's true, then why is it that '(variablename)' is not an
> > acceptable substitute in *all* places where an unquoted literal is
> > required by the syntax?  That is: why won't his desired syntax, shown
> > above, work *now*?
> 
> "Unquoted literal" != "expression".

Then why was "expression" the thing you chose to "correct" me on, if
it's not the thing I was asking about?

> filename@(expression) != "expression".

Ok, whatever.

You're not stupid, Ken: answer the question I'm asking, even if you
don't like my choices of words, ok?

Cheers,
-- jra
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