In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/15/2006
at 07:21 PM, Tom Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Why so?
Because the sentence as written is meaningless.
>The sentence references commands, subcommands and statements but NOT
>records.
Which is why it doesn't actually say anything.
>As stated it is correct.
As stated it is a tautology. It doesn't actually impose a limitation.
>What it is saying is that you cannot have
>multiple commands / subcommands on a given statement.
Which is automatically true by definition.
>For example:
> SUB; END
>...is forbidden in batch TMP.
It is not forbidden by the text that you quoted. It is two statements,
"SUB" and "END", each of which occurs at the beginning of itself.
>As for the use of concatenation
I'm not the one that claimed that the TMP supported concatenation in
SYSTSIN.
--
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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