On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:43:45 -0400 [email protected] wrote: :>While Robert Ngan's examples are not pretty, they work. Sometimes pretty :>is beyond our time frame of action.
Only if you live in a ivory tower with no considerations of reality and business needs. If ones test cases fit into a tiny bucket, it is easy to pontificate and speak out from Olympus to the dirty unwashed. Not everyone can think outside the box. :>The back and forth on this (and other) elists is often pretty. It is :>often informative. The perfect is often the enemy of the adequate. :>And obliquely, my one tagline is appropriate. :>Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. :>Things said in Latin appear to be high. :> :>IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> wrote on :>08/18/2014 02:31:15 PM: :> :>> From: John Gilmore <[email protected]> :>> To: [email protected] :>> Date: 08/18/2014 02:36 PM :>> Subject: Re: How to assign length of generated instructions to :>macrovariable? :>> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> :>> :>> 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. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies.
