Why funny?  Seems to me that:

EXIT    LABEL
        RETURN (14,12),RC=0


is a lot simpler to understand than
EXIT    DS 0H
        RETURN (14,12),RC=0


Of course anyone who's programmed assembler for more than one day knows that 
the DS 0H is for, but I prefer to have my code describe "what it's for" rather 
than "how it works".

Personally, I think the assembler should support a feature where it would align 
properly if you specify a label followed by a colon.  For example

EXIT:
        RETURN (14,12),RC=0


or
End_Processing:

        RETURN (14,12),RC=0

It's just more pleasing to my eye.

Frank



>________________________________
> From: "McKown, John" <[email protected]>
>To: 'Frank Swarbrick' <[email protected]>; 
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>Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 6:00 AM
>Subject: RE: DS 0H
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>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 6:29 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: DS 0H
>> 
>> I though of doing that very thing.  Do you find it objectionable?
>> 
>
>Why would I? It just seems "funny" to me. But, if you were to see some of my 
>code, you'd think that I'm a bit "funny".
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