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Re: qsh from cl

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Musselman, Paul
<pmusselman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've heard [letting the prompter format CL code] is good practice, just in case IBM re-arranges a parameter on you.

Yes, this is the standard advice. It is, without a doubt, safer to do
this. But it is just so fugly that I have difficulty doing it.

Besides being ridiculously verbose, using the prompter also destroys
indentation. I mean, it's really just painful to read.

John Y.

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