On Jan 5, 2013, at 06:09, John Gilmore wrote: > Here I find myself in complete agreement with Paul Gilmartin. > I won't tell anyone.
In some respect, your needs are extraordinary because it appears that you use conditional HLASM not simply to generate machine code, but also as a general purpose interpretive language, much as I use Rexx or POSIX shell to manufacture JCL (I try not to touch the stuff with my bare hands.) Your closing characterization was gratuitous; potentially counterproductive. Jonathan's measured followup does him credit. -- gil