On 2015-07-08 13:50, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Wednesday, 07/08/2015 at 02:41 EDT, "John P. Hartmann" wrote: >> Actually, Alan, || is a self-escaping sequence. >> >> You can execload something as | REXX and it will, in this example be >> invoked with "literal foobar" as its argument string. > Or perhaps not.
> I stand corrected, but OMG, ROTFLMAO! "How to annoy the next programmer > without really trying." > What makes you think I wouldn't really try? It's even worse: pipe x|| | console FPLSCB027E Entry point X| not found FPLSCA003I ... Issued from stage 1 of pipeline 1 FPLSCA001I ... Running "x|" OK. But: pipe ||x | console FPLSCC017E Null stage found FPLSCA192I ... Scan at position 3; previous data "||" Lexical precedence. -- gil
