Re: [ferret_users] trailing slash in symbol

["Ansley C. Manke" <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
It's an unofficial feature, and we don't have plans to change this 
behavior.  The behavior does seem to have been around a long time; I'll 
try to scope out the details and get them documented.
 
-Ansley
 
On 6/24/2020 6:45 AM, Ryo Furue wrote:
> Hi Ansley,
>  
> Thank you for the illuminating discussion about the parsing of the slash.
>  
> My question is the status of the define symbol command WITHOUT equal 
> sign.  Which is the case
>  
> * [Bug] It's a bug and will be an error in the future.
> * [Unofficial feature] It's not an official feature but will keep
> working in the foreseeable future.
> * [Official feature] It's an official feature.  It's not documented
> but will keep working in the future.
>  
> ?    Even the Ferret documentation includes examples of DEFINE SYMBOL 
> without equal sign.
>  
> Ryo
>  
 
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