On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 21:11:23 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote:

>Has anyone ever understood why data set/member names cannot start with 
>numerics? Just curious, as it seems like an odd restriction.
> 
Left-to-right lexical analyzer that treats anything beginning with a digit
as a number.

Does the same apply to every level in a DSN?

(In the day, storage was too expensive for a fancy parser)

-- 
gil

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