In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/20/2006
at 12:35 AM, Thomas Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>You mean as in regular expressions ?
Well, I'd prefer a cleaner syntax then Unix regexen, more like ICON,
SNOBOL and SuperWylbur®, and I'd also like support[1] for parsing
keyword parameters.
>Right. (BTW, do You mean as in "data structures" or "code
>structure" ?
Code, although structured data would be nice as well.
>As regarding data structures I think we are talking about a quite
>different programming language; which would also need (or rather it
>would be a strong request for) strong typing etc.)
You could add strong[2] typing to REXX very easily, although it might
be better to start from OREXX. However, I don't see why you would need
strong typing in order to get structured data.
[1] An addon called XPARSE supplies that.
[2] I assume that you mean compiler enforced strong typing rather than
runtime type checking.
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