On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Scott T. Harder
<[email protected]> wrote:
> You are "the man", and I mean that sincerely (your questions and comments at
> the TDM's are legendary as far as I'm concerned), but isn't the parsing in
> REXX better than Clist? I have no knowledge of IKJPARS and you can bet I'll
> be looking it up; I always found the PROC statement problematic, and that is
> the only way I knew to pass data between. I'm *sure* I am needing to learn
> here.
I think he means parsing things like:
COMMAND OPTION(VALUE) OPTION(VALUE(SUBVALUE)) OPTION(VALUE('SUBVALUE
look, a close paren)'))
is non-trivial. This is "easier" (FSVO easier) in assembler, where you
can keep track of whether you're "in" quotes etc. more naturally. It's
doable in Rexx, but you wind up with all kinds of sub-parsing that
feels unnatural and makes you want to wash your hands.
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