Volker Bandke wrote:
| for parameters and fail; e.g. GTSIZE , GP05197 | gets you a parameter error message, whereas SPACE , and 'normal' macros | don't.
That's why I have always started my comments with a comma
Note that the above has a comma, but in the case of GTSIZE and some others, IBM explicitly checks for any parameter, even if null, and issues an error message.
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