In <5756776272434376.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 11/11/2013 at 10:24 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>Yet, I appeal to consistency. If some designer pranced into the >room and announced, "There's never any reason to skip the first >step, so I'm designing IF so the first step is never skipped," I'd >order him dragged outside and shot. Rope is reusable. The only case where I would want an IF for the first step would require another change. I'd like to execute the first step only if some static system symbols had particular values. -- 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...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN