Sorry, right reply to wrong message. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> Sent: Saturday, January 6, 2024 7:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Style (was: LISTDSI - ...) The issue goes beyond what remedies are available. An open source project depends upon voluntary contributors. If potential contributors don't trust you to obey license term, you risk being abandoned. OTOH, changing the license, asking each contributor for permission and removing the code from each contributor that does not consent sends a potent message that you can be trusted. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Saturday, January 6, 2024 10:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Style (was: LISTDSI - ...) On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 14:25:09 +1100, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: >Quoted strings always gave me grief. I started to use Q='7D'X and >concatenate my strings this way: > >Str = Q||DsNAme||Q. >LISTDSI(Str) > I find that less transparent and surely more verbose than: LISTDSI( "'"DsNAme"'" ) or even: LISTDSI( ''''DsNAme'''' ) Programmers who eschew concatenation by abuttal are flaunting their unfamiliarity with the language. (But how does this play against the wise principle that self-defining terms should be assigned to symbols rather than used repeatedly: TWO = '2' SAY TWO + TWO ?) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
