On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:

> Isn't this a matter of semantics?
>

​No offense, but how I hate that sentence. Everything in human
communications is a "matter of semantics". If you ignore semantics, you
don't communicate. Semantics is: "the branch of linguistics and logic
concerned with meaning." Well, off my soap box. I hope you didn't take it
personally.


>
> No load module may be copied to a PDSE ... but ... a load module may be
> converted to a program object by the binder and placed in a PDSE. The end
> result from a user's point of view is very much like the load module having
> been copied to the PDSE.
>

​Correct. Just like a novel cannot be "copied" from English to Russian. It
must be _properly_ translated (which is not just substitute Russian words
for English word one-for-one). The effect is, hopefully, that the same
story is told. However from a __USER'S__ perspective (not a BOFH like me),
if the program works and produces the same answer, then it has been
"copied". It is just not a bit-for-bit identical copy as it would be with a
PDS to PDS copy of a load module.



>
> Charles
>
>
-- 
He's about as useful as a wax frying pan.

10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone

Maranatha! <><
John McKown

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