Seymour thanks my feeling exactly I have a ALC cop presentation on macros Doing some research
> On Jun 28, 2023, at 10:46 AM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
