> (where does "EXTERNAL:" in the Subject: come from? Brain-dead e-mail software. There's a race to the bottom.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2021 10:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Coding for the future (where does "EXTERNAL:" in the Subject: come from? Can it be suppressed?) On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 08:51:57 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > ... >It made the compiler simpler to write, and solved the problem of >a compiler having to decide on nested ifs which one an else >belonged to (the "hanging else" problem - usually solved by >assuming an else belongs to the most recent if). > I'll repeat my preference strong closure. Even JCL recognized the wisdom of that convention. DO...END and {...} were a naive mistake. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
