> From: john gilmore <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 07/01/2010 04:35 PM > Subject: re t' attribute > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> > > David Bond's suggestion that the n' attribute be used is trhe right one, as in > > > > |&parmin setb (n'&x eq 0) --value(s) supplied? > > > > is the appropriate one to use. The behavior you noticed is well > documented in the LR, and in that sense it is neither weird nor anomalous. > > > > Consider the macro instruction > > > > | MCGUFFIN GUBBINS=(a,b,(c,Joe)) > > > > For it > > > > |&narg seta n'&gubbins --yields 3 > > |&n1a seta n'&gubbins(1) --yields 1 > > |&n2a seta n'&gubbins(2) --yields 1 > > |&n3a seta n'&gubbins(3) --yields 2 > > |&k3a1 seta k'&gubbins(3,1) --yields 1 > > |&k3a2 seta k'&gubbins(3,2) --yields 3 > > > > etc., etc. With created set symbols it is even possible, and in my > view desirable, to construct the 'identifiers' of these targets > dynamically using the results of earlier queries to specify how many > later identifiers are to be constructed iteratively. > > > > Worth emphasizing again is that this is WAD behavior. > > > John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
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