In <3ukue5d024hvsqq36tesv225fu3lr0c...@4ax.com>, on 11/02/2009 at 11:50 PM, Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> said:
>Compatibility has its costs. This solution does not change the number of >parameters and is completely compatible. No; it breaks compatibility with existing code that supports more than 100 characters. It also leads to users believing that they have specified a parameter when the program actually never sees it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html