Perhaps, but that's just one of many issues.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Joe Monk [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2021 10:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Coding for the future Actually its probably added by a rule in Office 365. Joe On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 8:04 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > (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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
