Or DTL.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Steve Thompson [ste...@copper.net] Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2020 4:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: COBOL Question Don’t forget the SKELETON language. Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. Expct mistaks > On Jun 7, 2020, at 4:30 PM, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > 1. ISPF is not a language.If you are referring to panel definition > statements, > ELSE uses indentation to control scope. Python does the same thing. I > don't like it, but it is what it is. > > 2. SO/END blocks containing only a single statement are useful if you > may be adding code in the future. It's a stylistic issue about which > you will never achieve consensus. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of > Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2020 2:35 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: COBOL Question > > The only language I can think of off-hand that doesn't require some sort of > END to close a DO (I'm sure there are others) is ISPF. But, in REXX at > least, I never use single-statement DOs. I see them all the time, and I > don't get it. Like this: > > if x=0 then do > x=x+1 > end > > Or, more painfully: > > select > when idx="T" then > do > countt=countt+1 > end > when idx="U" then > do > countu=countu+1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
