Re: AW: PL/I and optional parameters

2015-11-06 Thread Jon Butler
The name of the program is ESCHATON, and irrespective of the number or value of parameters passed, always returns 42. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re: AW: PL/I and optional parameters

2015-11-05 Thread Jerry Callen
> I have a PL/I subroutine call that has 297 optional parameters. That is the > function has a parameter list with up to 100 tuples of parameters. The first > tuple is required, and tuple 2 through 100 are optional. OK, I've been watching this thread with growing curiosity and I can't stand

AW: Re: AW: PL/I and optional parameters

2015-11-04 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> The earlier post by Peter Hunkeler was referring to the LIST attribute of > ENTRY, described here: > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IBM3LR60/6.10.5 Yep, this is what I referred to. -- Peter Hunkeler

Re: AW: PL/I and optional parameters

2015-11-04 Thread Jon Butler
LIST has been part of PL/I, and most high-level languages, since at least the 370...that's a far back as I go! You can use LIST to get an listing of the assembler generated by the PL/I statements in your module. You can also limit the output by using a LIST(n,m) where n and m are the line