On 2013-11-06, at 11:06, Bob Shannon wrote: >> The "//" hack has long been deprecated by POSIX. IBM should have heeded >> that caution and avoided it. > > Since IBM's use of "//" predated POSIX by twenty years, perhaps POSIX should > have avoided using it. > I think that by deprecating it, POSIX counseled avoiding its use.
Are you thinking of "//" to differentiate legacy data sets from UNIX files in the fopen() function, or of "//" as a prefix to JCL statements? I (and POSIX) meant the former. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
