Hear, hear. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 6:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Potential heresy regarding E and L macros etc. (Was: WTO ABEND D23 help)
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:38:37 -0600, Chris Mason wrote: > <redacted> Sheesh! Talk about trolling for a religious argument. Well, I won't bite. I haven't coded a WTO lately. IIRC (much of) the cruft mentioned arises from the unforgivable misdesign of placing options after a variable-length text argument. It would have been so easy to do it right. But now, the only recourse would seem to be a marketing requirement for a low-cruft WTOE macro which would generate a parameter list containing: o A 64-bit pointer to the message text. It would be the programmer's responsibility to provide the storage for this. The content could be set conditionally by the MF=E form of WTOE. o Options, extensible by future innovation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
