In <53369a68.4060...@t-online.de>, on 03/29/2014 at 11:03 AM, Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> said:
>PL/1, BTW, does other strange things using descriptors, FSVO strange. PL/I supports call by reference, and the locator/descriptor is simply the mechanism used by current implementations, not something that your PL/I code deals with explicitly. From my perspective, it's C that is strange. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN