On Mon, 18 May 2009 17:48:44 +0200, Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote: >On Friday 15 May 2009 04:47, Clark Morris wrote: > >> .... I submitted a SHARE requirement back in the 1990's to have >> a compile option that the default be BLOCK 0. .... > >Great idea, and I wish IBM added that option to the compiler. >What a stupid necessity that programmers have to code BLOCK CONTAINS 0 ! > What happens if the programmer pre-allocates the data set? It's still a stupid necessity, but it might help in dealing with situations where recompilation is impractical.
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