Sorry, I misread Table 52 with regard to macros, but it does say NO for ordinary symbols.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jonathan Scott <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 2:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: You know you've been writing assembler too long when... Ref: Your note of Tue, 28 May 2019 17:41:33 +0000 It's only valid in a conditional assembly statement, but that can be in open code, and it can be used with a fixed symbol: AIF (O'AGH EQ 'O').ZS8 Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz writes: > > O' in front of a entity is valid. > > Some uses are valid, but not that one. The O attribute has to be used inside > of a macro, and even then it can only be used with a SETC symbol or > parameter. A name that does not begin with an ampersand is neither. Jonathan Scott, HLASM IBM Hursley, UK
