On Tue, 31 May 2011 01:23:36 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: > > ..., but I did find an error. When a DC >(or other) contained a text string with a doubled quote, and the >first landed in column 71, ASM G would consider that the end of >string, and treat the continuation card as comments. That made >for problems as that program was distributed with a collection >of macros resembling a stage 1, and I had to add extra checks >for lengths of generated strings and finagle. > Compatibility. JCL still suffers the same misbehavior. Likewise symbol names must not be split over a continuation. At least the latter is documented. Either is a major nuisance when trying to generate JCL as output of a program.
I suppose that in the day, the cost of a few bytes of storage for the lookbehind needed to solve the problem was considered prohibitive; the greater evil; nowadays a solution would introduce incompatibilities. I hate JCL! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
