And, EXEC2 is entirely case sensitive, and the EXECCOMM interface -used by
VARSET & co- dates from the EXEC2 days.

2011/9/29 Glenn Knickerbocker <[email protected]>

> On 09/29/2011 04:36 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
> > Why is VARSET case sensitive?  As far as I know, REXX variables are
> > case-insensitive.
>
> The tails of stemmed variables are case-sensitive:
>
>  /* try this */
>  Address COMMAND
>  'PIPE literal upper case| var ABC.XYZ direct'
>  'PIPE literal lower case| var ABC.xyz direct'
>  Say abc'.'xyz '=' abc.xyz  /* ABC.XYZ = upper case */
>  xyz = 'xyz'
>  Say abc'.'xyz '=' abc.xyz  /* ABC.xyz = lower case */
>
> ¬R
>



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