Ed, That sounds like a great topic for a SHARE presentation on advanced assembler usage, if it's not considered too proprietary to release into the wild.
Any chance of that happening? Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Friday, March 8, 2019 10:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Best practice using Conditional Assembly 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! -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system.
