Robert Ngan's examples are much like others already posted, and they suffer from the same defects. Implicit diagnosis by attempting to trigger an assembly error is indicative of something less than full competence in the use of the HLASM.
Errors should be detected explicitly using the macro-language facilities provided for doing so, and they should then be diagnosed in extenso in mnotes having appropriately chosen severity levels associated with them. Brevity may perhaps be the soul of wit, but the unintelligibl;y terse is not a merit in mnote text. I wish it were possible to be more charitable, but alternative schemes are really not admissible. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
