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

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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.


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