The syntax for AND and OR operators in the Strcutured Programming Macros is
differs slightly between the UNTIL= and WHILE= options of the DO macro and
every other SPM macro that supports conditions. This is not only very confusing
but I was just bitten by the fact that the DO macro may silently
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 11:23:48 +0100 Fred van der Windt
fred.van.der.wi...@mail.ing.nl wrote:
:The syntax for AND and OR operators in the Strcutured Programming Macros is
differs slightly between the UNTIL= and WHILE= options of the DO macro and
every other SPM macro that supports conditions. This
:But why is this error not properly signalled?
Because it wasn't coded to do it.
Anyway, I asked the 'right person in our organization' to report it to IBM as a
bug in the HLASM Toolkit.
Fred!
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ATTENTION:
The information in
Ouch! Otiose tokens should not be silently ignored. Would:
DO UNTIL=((CR,R1,LT,R2),AND,(CR,R3,LT,R4))
.. have produced the intended result?
Yes it does:
DO UNTIL=((CR,R1,LT,R2),AND,(CR,R3,LT,R4))
+...@lb2 DC 0H
:
:
ENDDO
+...@lb3
Trouble comes when the SPMs are used by people who do not/cannot write macro
definitions.
Ah.
So if I code a macro invocation with parameters that do not meet the documented
specification of that macro, but the macro ignores the incorrect parameters and
uses the remaining parameters to
On 2010-12-03 14:45, Fred van der Windt wrote:
Trouble comes when the SPMs are used by people who do not/cannot write macro
definitions.
Ah.
So if I code a macro invocation with parameters that do not meet the documented
specification of that macro, but the macro ignores the incorrect
