On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:30:57 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>
>A well designed language would not just have comments, but would enforce
>comments. Of course, the most excellent language would understand the
>comments themselves and that would actually be the code! Nerd-vana.
>
DEK has a similar idea:
URL:
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~al/Literate-programming/draft/knuth-web.html
>> As a courtesy, the vendor should partition the name space and commit
>> to leaving some fraction available for user-defined macros
>
>I do not really care for component prefixes. What about my macros? What
>if some vendor duplicates my name?
>
That's why IBM maintains a registry.
>I would, sort of, like HLASM to implement "namespaces". My idea would be
>something along the lines of it working like it does today, with one
>addition. Where you can currently place either a macro name (opcode
>field), or as part of the parameter (member name) of the COPY, be able
>to specify a DD name which is used instead of SYSLIB to resolve the
>macro or copy statement. Eg
>
I like it; is it on John Ehrman's wishlist?
-- gil
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