On 2014-02-21, at 02:45, robin wrote:

> From: "Paul Gilmartin" <paulgboul...@aim.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 5:07 PM
>
>> On 2014-02-20, at 20:50, John Gilmore wrote:
>>
>>> The appropriate distinction not bwteeen what may appear in macro and
>>> outside them.  It is that between the syntax of the macro language and
>>> 'vanilla' assembly language.  This is important because macro-language
>>> statements can appear outside macro definitions, i.e., in open code.
>>>
>>> The construct
>>>
>>> &txt      setc    'QVSIMGLOGICALPARTITIONNAME'
>>> &txtk     seta     k'QVSIMGLOGICALPARTITIONNAME
>>>
>>>           MVC    0(&txtk,R4),&txt
>>>
>> Can this not be done without typing the string twice?  I'd imagine:
>
> Use a text editor and copy it.

Hardly a constructive suggestion; it doesn't address the objective
of the question.  Think of "typing" in a more general sense.

-- gil

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