Ditto C: char foo[] = "hello " /* talk about a cliché! */ "world";
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 12:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question about PARMDD On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 19:52:26 +0000, David W Noon wrote: > >You need to remember that the PARMDD file is read in and concatenated >into a character string. The notion of comments inside a character >string is rather a strange one to me, as a programmer who has been >doing string parsing for decades. > And yet: 572 $ rexx say 'foo'/*comment*/'bar' foobar (Yes, I understand there's an implied concatenation operator there.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN