Re: ALTER, ASSIGN and labels-as-values (was: Unicode in strings)

Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> schrieb:

Scott Lurndal wrote:
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"Stephen Fuld" <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> writes:

John Levine wrote:
 

According to Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid>:

As I said before, you could easily scan the source code and find

all >> > the ALTER statements ...

 
Hm, I'm guessing you've never dropped a box containing 2000 source
cards.

 
 
I have (remember using a marker to put a diagonal line across the
top of the deck to make it easier to spot an out of order card?
:-(.  But that isn't the point.  When I said scan, I was referring
to the paper listings that, in the day, were easily available.

 
We always used the sequence number field with COBOL, so the
deck could be sorted using a card sorter if dropped.

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Good point.  I had forgotten about that.

The ISPF editor used to add these automagically, without them being
visible, for FB80 files.

Worked great the first time I tried to run LaTeX, which was on a
mainframe... I could not make heads or tails of the error messages.