Seymour - you wrote this earlier : > We'll have to agree to disagree; it is both inefficient and confusing.
And then later you wrote this : > And my position is based on code readability and maintainability, not efficiency The "it is both inefficient .." part of that sentence is stated in a way to convey absolute certainty of something that conflicts with what IBM have told me in the past. This prompted me to reply to you. As pointed out by Dave Salt and yourself - there is a third school of thought on how to use "address" - that is fine. If the code is well thought out and commented, readability and maintainability is possible in all three schools. > No - there is nothing to restore, because it never changes the environment. >From SA22-7790 REXX Reference, under the section dealing with the "ADDRESS" statement : "After execution of the command, environment is set back to whatever it was before, thus temporarily changing the destination for a single command" Rob Scott Rocket Software http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
