In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/22/2006
at 08:04 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>In fact, "A STEM.2 C" is correct behavior for Cowlishaw Rexx.
Do you have a reference for that claim?
>But, what's important is,
Why is it important?
>does:
> do K over stem.
> say K symbol( 'stem.K' )
> end
>produce a line:
> 2 LIT
Not after the drop.
>If not, it's impossible to copy stem. precisely to a different stem
>and get newstem.2 in the DROPped state.
Only because drop is not working as documented.
>A stricter test would use nonnumeric tails.
stem.=joe
................................................ REXXTRY.CMD on
OS/2
stem.a=r
................................................ REXXTRY.CMD on
OS/2
stem.b=s
................................................ REXXTRY.CMD on
OS/2
stem.c=t
................................................ REXXTRY.CMD on
OS/2
drop stem.b
................................................ REXXTRY.CMD on
OS/2
say 'stem.='stem.
stem.=JOE
................................................ REXXTRY.CMD on
OS/2
say 'stem.b='stem.b
stem.b=STEM.B
................................................ REXXTRY.CMD on
OS/2
do i over stem.;say i stem.i symbol('stem.i');end
A R VAR
C T VAR
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