I'm aware of the distinction, but have always felt that that's a fairly reasonable working definition of "default", at least up until a reassignment.
i ------ Original Message ------ Received: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:39:27 PM COT From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Multi-dimensional arrays in REXX > On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:21:31 -0500, Ian S. Worthington wrote: > > >Regrettably you can only set a default for the stem as a whole, not for a > >subset of the variable space. > > > It is *not* a default, and Rexx documentation avoids > the possibly misleading use of "default" by a correct > description that: > > X. = 'blank' > > assigns [in effect] the value 'blank' to every possible > member of the compound variable with stem X. > > Not only freshman and sophomore Rexx programmers fail to > understand this, but even IBM developers have caused a > violation of the specification by introducing a > misconceived optimization. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
