On 2014-07-28, at 23:17, Ed Jaffe wrote: >> >> CANCEL J(1234) >> or: >> C J(1234) > > My preference in documentation tends toward using the shortest possible > command and operand abbreviations in any examples, but I can see both sides... > I deliberately chose an extreme example. I doubt that the longer form is much used in practice. And a manual would do well to show examples of both.
In strong reaction to the pervasive excess of brevity, in my EXECs I customarily code TRANSMIT rather than XMIT and ALLOCATE rather than ALLOC (and resent that BPXWDYN accepts only the shorter form). And I loathe quiet truncation. Am I the only programmer ever to have coded "BPXWDYN( 'ALLOC ... RECFM(FB) ...' )" only to be rudely surprised by the result? I'd much prefer a reported syntax error. -- gil
