On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 08:30:22 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>Assembler, allegedly the model for JCL, gets both of those right.
>
>(From memory)
>
>&FOO SETC 'Don''t'
>X DC C'&FOO'
>
>Gives you a constant of "Don't" (and no syntax error).
>
I don't believe that works; I think you need the DOUBLE BiF:
START
&FOO ` SETC 'Don''t'
&DFOO SETC DOUBLE('&FOO')
X DC C'&DFOO'
END
JCL sorely lacks DOUBLE.
(It would be nice to be able to do it without the additional SETC.)
-- gil
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