Paul Gilmartin wrote, in part, in answer to "Why can't a data set name element start with a digit": >Left-to-right lexical analyzer that treats anything beginning with a digit >as a number.
I'm willing to believe this, but am unclear on why whatever is parsing a DSN would care whether it's a number or not. E.g.: //SYSIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=1.2.3 Why would it care that it's a digit? The start of a non-initial DSN element is the thing after a period, so it doesn't matter there. My guess is something planned/considered that never happened, or just a mistake late on a Sunday afternoon in 1962. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
