In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 08/23/2006
at 01:05 PM, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>And there is no concept of an "enumeration of BAR."
There is in OREXX. I believe that the DO variable over stem. statement
is also valid in ANSI REXX.
>but I do understand that not everyone likes the way the REXX language
>was defined to work, particularly as it applies to unset variables.
I've seen style guides suggesting not to exploit that behavior, but
IMHO it's too useful to boycott.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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