Re: Potential heresy regarding E and L macros etc. (Was: WTO ABEND D23 help)

2010-11-22 Thread john gilmore
Others may well elect to find WTO difficult: chacun à son gout; but, as Edward Jaffe hinted, the TEXT=((,)[,(,)]... keyword parameter obviates the historical difficulties that Paul Gilmartin has mentioned so persistently. Addresses are all the same length, and an additional level of indire

Re: Potential heresy regarding E and L macros etc. (Was: WTO ABEND D23 help)

2010-11-22 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:38:37 -0600, Chris Mason wrote: > >Is there any impact whatsoever in having or in not having the macro in the >source code on the reliability of the generated logic?: > >Of course not - but it's here that the timorous might allow themselves to be >influenced by the FUD facto

Re: Potential heresy regarding E and L macros etc. (Was: WTO ABEND D23 help)

2010-11-22 Thread Charles Mills
Hear, hear. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 6:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Potential heresy regarding E and L macros etc. (Was: WTO ABEND D23 help) On

Re: Potential heresy regarding E and L macros etc. (Was: WTO ABEND D23 help)

2010-11-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:38:37 -0600, Chris Mason wrote: > Sheesh! Talk about trolling for a religious argument. Well, I won't bite. I haven't coded a WTO lately. IIRC (much of) the cruft mentioned arises from the unforgivable misdesign of placing options after a variable-length text argument.

Re: Potential heresy regarding E and L macros etc. (Was: WTO ABEND D23 help)

2010-11-22 Thread Chris Mason
Chris > I think you have missed the point I was making about the WTO interface. I do NOT advocate ditching formal interfaces in general. Well, you thought wrong! It's very clear to me and I would expect to the vast majority of readers that what I said >> I feel prompted to suggest a step furt

Re: Potential heresy regarding E and L macros etc. (Was: WTO ABEND D23 help)

2010-11-19 Thread Chris Craddock
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Chris Mason wrote: > Charles > > It was because of your earlier posts on automation topics that I > bothered to > poke my nose in here and it was only when I saw what might be a bit of > irritation with the static nature of macro coding, even the "E" and "L" - > o

Potential heresy regarding E and L macros etc. (Was: WTO ABEND D23 help)

2010-11-19 Thread Chris Mason
Charles Sorry - a rather late response. As you may know I normally restrict myself to questions relating to the two Communications Server components but I have messed about with trivial assembler programs which were completely my own and with no expectation that anyone will ever need to mainta