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I know the prompt can get ugly with very long strings. Does it do something else unpleasant?
-----Original Message-----
From: John Yeung [mailto:gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2018 2:33 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: 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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