On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:51:57 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>
>on 01/28/2014  at 08:14 AM, John Gilmore said:
>
>>Two ampersands represent one ampersand in and only in a single-quote
>>framed string.
>
>Nonsense!
>
>//SYSUT1   DD  DSN=&&SPILL,...
> 
Not so much.  In a subsequent ply, which you appear not to have read
with your time machine before following up, JWG corrected me
concerning the special syntactic treatment of temporary data set
names and its historical causes.

Would that it were as consistent as you imply.

-- gil

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