For sure! It's not a problem I lose sleep over -- perhaps because my primary language is now C++, no longer assembler.
I don't recall ever thinking about the issue until it came up on this list. I'm a "design elegance" guy. It would please me if there were a single expression processor such that the syntax of immediate operands and of DC's of the same length were the same. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Boonie Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 8:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HLASM anomaly > Were I to rebut each of your hypothetical objections you could of > course rebut my rebuttals. I will only point out that often the coder > does not have > control over how flags are defined: they are defined in some system or > "external" DSECT or similar. I concede that readily. My thinking was that if other approaches (mine among them) were used for hopefully some non-trivial portion of the cases you posited, perhaps the number of problematic cases remaining would become small enough that they would be more of an anomaly than a recurring irritation. :-) - mb
