I think Jon Perryman's comment deserves a little more respect. Another famous guy, Albert Einstein, famously said something like keep things as simple as possible. There's a bad tendency among some to play with any shiny new tool they find, regardless of whether it's actually appropriate for the task at hand.
Nevertheless, the next part of the famous quote was "but no simpler." AREAD is a useful tool, and is great when it makes something difficult easier. Jon P. allowed for that in his post, too. sas On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 9:35 AM Ed Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/7/2019 8:54 PM, Jon Perryman wrote: > > Never use AREAD unless it's really needed and you are willing to code it > correctly. Circumventing the assembler is not helpful. > > AREAD/AINSERT is arguably the most powerful single mechanism in all of > HLASM. We use it *everywhere* to build tables and we've even created a > sort of "compiler" that allows us to do wondrous things. I highly > recommend its use! > > > -- > Phoenix Software International > Edward E. Jaffe > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
