On Tue, 9 May 2017 10:03:04 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Tue, 9 May 2017 09:54:22 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: > >>There is a good reason it looks like a comment. >>It allows JCL to be coded that contains Job Entry Control Language statements >>for both JES2 and JES3, so that it can be run in either environment. >> >I don't consider it a good reason. It would have been better to provide a >PRAGMA directive as many other languages do, rather than to usurp >part of the comment grammar with attendant risk of astonishment.
Hindsight. How many languages had a PRAGMA directive when ASP was written in the 1960's? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
