I'm not Dale, but actually I do. I use it because sometimes it's necessary to help me set a variable whose name is itself variable, and it's wonderful then. But otherwise I don't have much use for it, for exactly that reason.
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven. -George Macdonald */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 18:30 Side effect. Do you similarly dislike X = value( Y, Z ) --- On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 17:05:40 -0500, Dale R. Smith wrote: >I sometimes use the "If Function(arg1,arg2...)"....I don't like it for >SYSCALLS because it's not obvious that "If SYSCALLS('ON')" is not just testing >the returned value, but it also establishes the SYSCALL environment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
