"Labels are labels."

Drinks are drinks, but it matters whether it is Slivowitz or Fuming Nitric Acid.

"
It doesn't matter whether they are alphabetic, alphanumeric, or numeric."

It matters if you have to maintain the code. It doesn't matter if the code is 
throw-away.


--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf 
of Robin Vowels <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2018 10:47 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Call by name

From: "Seymour J Metz" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 3:58 AM


> Numeric labels are okay for write-only code. They are very bad in code that 
> has to be maintained.

Eh?

Labels are labels.

It doesn't matter whether they are alphabetic, alphanumeric, or numeric.

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