In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 01/03/2010
at 05:56 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>Why are there TPUT/TGET/PUTLINE/GETLINE (whatever) rather than just doing
>QSAM I/O to SYSTSPRT and SYSTSIN?
Because they provide functionality not present in QSAM.
>And JCL and Rexx both leave an undefined symbol as it appeared in
>the source, with no warning.
The first is necessary because symbols were an afterthought and IBM
overloaded the & when they added symbols. Both behaviors are actually
useful.
I take it that you adhere to the philosophy of always enabling NOVALUE in
Rexx?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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