On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 14:10:08 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >> What if both (a) and (b) are true? > >"Doc, when I hit my head with this hammer it hurts!" >"Don't do that." > (a) imposes a severe restriction on the long-lines facility by requiring that column 72 be blank. The programmer could accommodate that by coding such as 0C' ', but that's worse than old-fashioned continuation.
The documentation should state the rules completely and unambiguously. FLOWASM's syntax is relatively good only insofar as HLASM's is absolutely bad. >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Monday, June 7, 2021 12:20 PM >On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 18:02:57 +0000, Rob Scott wrote:. >> >>As for the rules, this is what I use (Ed can correct me if I am wrong). >> >>(o) If the first line of a logical statement has a character in col-72, it >>will not be processed by flowasm and presented to ASMA90 as-is. >> >>(o) If the first line of a logical statement can be processed in flowasm >>format, it will be dynamically changed to traditional format before being >>presented to ASMA90. Subsequent lines in the same logical statement are >>required to be in flowasm format. >> ... -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
