On 9/26/23 07:26:18, Dave Clark wrote:
"IBM Mainframe Assembler List" wrote on
09/25/2023 05:55:23 PM:
Just put another WHEN right after it.
SELECT
WHEN 1
something
WHEN 2
WHEN 3
something
ENDSEL ,
No need for a placeholder instruction.
Thanks. Yes, that would work but I don't like how it looks.
Because, to a COBOL programmer, it looks like an OR condition as it is in
COBOL. I wanted the placeholder instruction so that even a COBOL
programmer won't mistake the intent.
Would Assembler accept "WHEN 3 AND NOT 2"?
Various programming languages have different semantics
for constructs that appear similar. For example:
CONTINUE in FORTRAN is quite different from
continue in C.
It wold be futile to attempt to write a C program with
semantics of a FORTRAN program. It's futile to write
an Assembler program which would work if it were COBOL.
Do you have a distaste for comments? Comments are your
friend. Add a comment explaining what you're doing.
--
gil
