I have developed a genuine liking for these tennis match posts regarding
topics I don't remotely understand. The use of the King's English has
become the entertainment aspect that I find particularly challenging and
amusing. I keep having to google words with which I will then amaze my
circle of friends as though I knew them all along..... :-)
I see a parallel to my recent viewing of the Two Fat Ladies cooking show.
I
can't remotely relate to their technical skill, though the output appears
delicious, but the scenery of the English and Scottish countryside make me
yearn for a long vacation in the district with all the lakes.
I vaguely suspect that my company will soon accommodate my desire for a
long
vacation. :-( ;-)
........now, where is my fly fishing equipment ????
"Paul Gilmartin" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:
<listserv%[email protected]>...
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:44:00 +0000, john gilmore wrote:
>
><begin snippet>
>I haven't coded a WTO lately. IIRC (much of) the cruft mentioned arises
from the unforgivable misdesign of placing options after a variable-length
text argument. It would have been so easy to do it right.
></end snippet>
>
>If this means what it appears to mean it reflects 'radical' ignorance of
HLASM syntax.
>
You needn't quote "radical". (Is it an attribution to yourself?)
If you feel you overuse it to the point of tedium, choose a different
adjective; your vocabluary likely includes a wealth of intensifiers.
>The HLASM imposes no requirement that keyword-parameter values follow
(or, of course, precede) positional-parameter ones. It does impose the
obvious, essential requirement that positional-parameter values appear in
a
macro instruction in the same sequence in which they appear in its macro
definition; but that is another matter.
>
No, no, no! I was referring not to the syntax of the macro instruction,
but to the generated argument list to the SVC, which places options after
the variable-length text string, requiring convolutions to supply a
text string of unpredictable length in the MF=E form.
-- gil
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