Paul Gilmartinäs response to Binyamin Dissen:
Wasn't there an IBM warning that user macros should be greater than five
characters since all opcodes were to be five characters or less, and thus
this
problem would be avoided?
Right.
Thusfar I often inclued a $ # @ in my 'cute' (=short) macro names.
I wrote 'often'... From now on it will be 'always' and consistently !
All other potential 'collisions' are masked by SYSLIB concatenation.
My 2 bits:
- IBM opcodes will remain [A-Z]
- IBM might at some point introduce/add characters at present illegal for
opcodes and macro names
- one such extension *should be* for 'qualifiers' like J-NE BR-O
Andreas F. Geissbuehler
