On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:53:34 +0000, Gibney, Dave wrote: > I once greatly improved a Rexx routine exploiting the associative Rexx > array. It was some extract from a TMS report. It was originally written like > any other array with a subscript variable. And a lot of for loops. > I changed it to use the main key (in this case the tape volser) as the > index. Elapsed and CPU times where reduced 80 to 90 percent. > Yes, but one must sometimes contend with readers of these lists who insist that Rexx compound tails _must_ be consecutive positive integers, and the count _must_ appear in the .0 member, because that's the way the only example they read did it.
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