On 16/05/2018 12:08 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I note that these enhancements add a couple characters, '[' and ']' to the vocabulary. I suspect Cowlishaw avoided these because they're troublesome or ambiguous on many mainframe terminals. How many plaints about baffling syntax errors are answered with "What code page is your terminal using?"
I hate EBCDIC too! I got an e-mail from someone in Sweden asking if my z/OS Lua port could handle square brackets in a Scandinavian code page. In hindsight I should have used UTF8 instead of IBM1047/IBM037. Even the ISPF editor supports UTF8 these days.
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