Wow, yeah. That would be Just Plain BAD. If you're gonna truncate, you can't do it quietly.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
