It's not intuitive that the label is on the *correct* end.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 5:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] The Condition Code as a return value from a called function and LEAVE in Rexx On 2020-06-09, at 14:46:30, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > No Rexx implementation; it's the original PL/I syntax. > > ________________________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: Seymour J Metz > Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 1:54 PM > > If and when ANSI updates the Rexx standard, I hope that they use the syntax > > <label>: DO LABEL ... > For the human reader it's more intuitive to label the END rather than the DO because that's where LEAVE goes and ITERATE increments and tests. And hardly more difficult for the translator. -- gil
