On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:52:24 -0400, Baraniecki, Ray wrote: >Does this technique work the same in Rexx? > It would, but it's unnecessary; pointless; undesirable.
>-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >McKown, John >Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:02 AM > >suppose the line were: > >IF &ITEMS < 5 THEN DO > >What if &ITEMS is null ('')? Without the periods, the CLIST intepreter would >see the line: > >IF < 5 THEN DO > >which it could not handle (syntax error). So the periods are there just to >make the line syntactically correct in the case where &ITEMS is null. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
