On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:30:13 -0400, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>-- http://www.fun-with-words.com/eats_shoots_leaves_review.html
>
Somewhat related, there's a strong argument against quiet truncation
of input lines or identifiers to some conventional length. Imagine:
DELETE MY.DATA.SET(MEMBER)
getting truncated with no warning just before the '('. IIRC, FORTRAN
for the IBM 1620 was a bad example: it allowed identifiers to be
written to 6 characters for alleged compatibility with other FORTRANs,
but took only the first 4 as significant.
I'm seething from a time I did SDSF; SJ; SUBMIT and my JCL was
_quietly_ truncated to 80 characters. Someday I'll get in a PMR
mood. Data integrity, as I see it.
-- gil
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