On 2014-02-24 10:09, John Walker wrote:
Mixed case is industry standard? What industry, mainframe assembler, or C programming industry standard? Come on. This is just more C programmers trying to foist the mixed case abomination off onto the mainframe in order to make us conform to what they are used to. Honestly, it IS more error prone to have that ridiculous mixed case approach than mono-case. Upper or lower, I don't care which, but it DOES avoid more headaches. And the 'headaches' that are described for the pre-trained mixed-case readers is because of a normal need to de-train your mind from mixed case reading. I encountered the same situation when I first entered the mainframe area. That's normal. However, trying to make all mainframers, admittedly a small group now, to conform to you is a bit pushy, wouldn't you think?
The discussion here has been about HLASM accepting mixed case input, not about it being sensitive to the case of an identifier. Mixed case text is demonstrably easier to read than all upper case. On the other hand, there has been no shortage of problems in case-sensitive languages such as C involving two identifiers differing only in the case of a single character. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507
