On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 12:52:49 -0600, Jon Perryman wrote:
>
>He's not making it up the 8 char limit. ++MOD and ++JCLIN create those SMP/e
>entries. ++ZAP does not document limitations already described in ++MOD and
>++JCLIN.
>
And yet it says:
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=statements-zap-mcs>
name
... The name can contain any alphanumeric characters and $, #, @, or hex C0.
Is that documenting limitations already described, introducing further
limitations,
or fully describing the lexical syntax. The reader should be told.
This is "The exception that implies the rule." Explicitly mentioning only some
limitations leads the reader to conclude that there are no others.
--
gil
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