When terminals and printers did not have lower case.

On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM Lennie Bradshaw
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> CLIST design is over 50 years old I think.
> Lennie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
> Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: 09 January 2025 00:13
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: ISREDIT CAPS ON OFF
>
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 21:59:18 +0000, Schmitt, Michael  wrote:
>
> >This is CLIST code. By default, CLIST changes all statements to upper case 
> >before execution. Add CONTROL NOCAPS after ISREDIT MACRO.
> > .
> Terrible design.  To avoid confounding the novice, or even the OP of this 
> thread, the default should be minimum munging: I.e. ASIS.
>
> Especially when the text is quoted.
>
> -
> gil
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