In a recent note, Rob Scott said: > Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:27:42 -0500 > > "Note: once you execute "address ISREDIT", there is no need to put > "ISREDIT" in front of every command." > > Maybe not - but I think it is good practice - it protects you from > problems if you happen to ADDRESS another environment when you next > change the REXX exec. Admittedly this might not be a big issue with > simple edit macros - but in larger REXX execs you can easily shoot > yourself in the foot. > > I also think that it makes the code easier on the eye and easier to > maintain. > You could make the same argument for putting a USING or a CSECT in front of every other assembly language statement.
And it wouldn't be true there, either. (Although HLASM reports effective USINGs at the top of each page.) And, following up on teD's reasoning, if I have a large chunk of statements in another environment, I'll habitually make a PROCEDURE out of it. Since the previous addressing environment is restored on return, everything desired happens automatically. No, I don't put a restoring ADDRESS ... either before the RETURN or after the CALL (although Ed Jaffe might like it that way.) -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
