Well, if you don't care about how hard it is to maintain or about the error rate in maintenance then it doen't matter.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Robin Vowels <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 10:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Labels From: "Jon Perryman" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 4:44 PM > Seymour is talking about maintainable large amounts of code > should have at least alphanumeric labels. Numeric labels can be confusing > unless you have a really good numbering scheme. It still doesn't matter whether labels are numeric or alphanumeric, nor whether programs are large or small. > I suspect most programmers would not use numeric labels unless forced. FORTRAN has numeric labels. Large or small programs. On Thursday, February 15, 2018 7:47 PM, Robin Vowels <[email protected]> wrote: 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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://secure-web.cisco.com/1b_RH3dv2tTinfbVeh4WcN2FCZgIq7F7--TPKsc-fRV_xXZMAKL_B0B-8nW1LcGFQfZplm-EN4daoDR4chiIvmHNb620zTOLxQCGSn6sCaacFKWxZrY-GGhk_CMbruoq-h8zxWgieBROt7BJJGYUN1-Err3ERbj7_Q9nGD_hhPx4P2MpPuy4Lc2q-Emd5ANGfYEToNKIP_iPZzrQ17X5m9HnYXOIJ44d-lVLYMhzI1NMvBXqagikuyW5KvNF_O2LsG7ceZfqstvlJLRxfuQ2CUets5acu0yAFw6xL-AexWFBoyy_9W09XEHbvftcUjxUGlGdU6-fBLLCBYVturHsakyi8RuZnNxvabMQOBSnthcOT4RM3BuQXOjfKsRx2GJC8AAVoegoHansuMGhzPswjrhCRQG4Rv60P9EpLRnT3VlyIAYr-MjNsxirCf28B-1bm/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.avast.com%2Fantivirus
