I'm not arguing against sequence numbers, but my reasons for liking them have nothing to do with column dependence in the various languages.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Clark Morris <cfmt...@uniserve.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 9:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Editing HLASM source with Visual Studio - columns 73-80 [Default] On 10 Dec 2019 09:43:02 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main sme...@gmu.edu (Seymour J Metz) wrote: >Modern? Other than assemblers, COBOL and Fortran, what was the last language >that you saw with column dependencies? The 2002 and 2014 standards for COBOL allows for both fixed and free form. Some source maintenance systems rely on sequence numbers. Clark Morris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
