In <[email protected]>, on
08/16/2013
   at 10:40 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:

>Which I attribute, in turn, to excessive[1] exposure to Assembler's
>inconsistent syntax. 

It's always a mistake to expect rules for one language to apply to
another. Of course, poor documentation doesn't help.

BTW, I would expect assuming similar behavior to that of PL/I to be
more common than assuming similar behavior to that of assembler.
 
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