I wonder what "bad advise" that may have been.
Reviewing my post I see only that I implied some suggestions regarding
testing - and unearthed a rather confusing comment regarding commas in the
description of the START command in the manual.
Perhaps this is yet another case of not bothering to read everything in the
post - typical of this contributor - "par for the course".
I wonder what significance using lower case for a name has. Perhaps there is
a cultural angle here.
Given that the observed behaviour is declared errant by a representative
from development, perhaps "the same *ought to be* true for operator
commands" would be more accurate.
From the context "advise" takes on the role of a noun. Had the adjective
been modified to become an adverb as in "bad" becoming "badly", "advise"
could be understood to be a verb - with some other adjustments to the phrase
of course. I wondered if this wasn't some transatlantic variation of the
word "advice", as in "defence" becoming "defense" for example, but Googling
didn't offer any confirmation of this surmise. Indeed, the normal English
use was confirmed. For example:
<quote>
American Heritage Dictionary
ad·vise (ad-viz')
v. ad·vised, ad·vis·ing, ad·vis·es
v. tr.
1. To offer advice to; counsel.
2. To recommend; suggest: advised patience.
3. Usage Problem To inform; notify.
v. intr.
1. To take counsel; consult: She advised with her associates.
2. To offer advice.
</quote>
So it's a mystery.
Chris Mason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: Strange behavior of START command(Keyword parms)
...
Thanks. I learned from dealing with assembler macros that only if
some positional parms are omitted between two positional parms commas
are required to occupy the position.
The same is true for operator commands; chris gave you bad advise.
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