In <[email protected]>, on
12/12/2014
   at 04:46 PM, Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> said:

>I would be delighted if, rather, the parser reported a reference 
>to an undefined apparent symbol as a syntax error.

That would break existing JCL. There seems to be a curious mix of
things that work differently for no good reason aand things that are
consistent with old behaviors whose reasons are no longer relevant.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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