On 01/27/10 16:56, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:

Worse, the same applies to the backslash, further complicating the
problem for Rexx:  Do you mean the standard backslash (E0) or the APL
one (B7)?  I've never understood why Mike gave us two bad choices for
that operator and no good ones.

Would you prefer "!", prevalent in UNIX?  Oops!  That's a valid symbol
(but not a variable name) in Rexx.

I've sometimes fallen back to "1 - ( boolean_expr )" to avoid either
"¬ ( boolean_expr )" or "\ ( boolean_expr )".  Of course, this circumvents
some validity checking: "01" is not detected as an invalid boolean value.

-- gil

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