Yes, it's legal, no, it's not an ordinary symbol in a [LCL|GBL]x, and yes, it's confusing. IMHO it would have been better to accept it but issue a warning.
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Joseph Reichman <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2023 10:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Variable symbol without leading & Hi Just looked at the doc for LCLC says for variable symbol says can be with or with out leading & I did try to assemble a symbol without leading & and it did a assemble however I would think without the leading & it’s an ordinary symbol However when I tried to do a SETC against it I got a assembly error So my question becomes if you can declare a variable symbol without a leading & But cannt SETC what can it be used for
