Re: Suggested CL enhancement - <>

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

CUTE!!!

I bet these design points are 30-40 years old. No DCR will touch this one. 
Besides, it's probably coded in PL/MI, and both people in all of IBM who 
know that language would not want to touch it.

;-)
Vern

At 03:32 PM 9/23/2004, you wrote:
> Must be a real bear to program without parenthesis, asterisks, equal
> signs, plus signs, etc.  :-)  But I get your point.  Trying to find the
> term for language dependant characters.  (ignoring the fact that I am
> assuming that a simple letter t is language independent).
>
> So, y'all think that
> CHGVAR &ANSWER (1 *PLUS 1)
> would be easier to read than
> CHGVAR &ANSWER (1 + 1)
>
> (other than the fact that my display converts the plus sign into
> alternating left and right facing arrows, if you look close enough)
>
> Rob Berendt