In <[email protected]>, on
07/24/2012
at 10:39 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>And remembering that Rexx considers lower case characters "special".
Not quite, but the default value of an uninitialized variable is the
upper case name.
>Do these have different semantics?
No; ISREDIT will recognize the extraneous ISREDIT command and process
the remainder of the string. However, these have the same semantics:
Address ISREDIT foo
Address ISREDIT
foo
>If ISPF assumes that an ampersand in a command string has special
>meaning to the scripting language
It doesn't.
> '(L) = LINE' ILine
>Is this yet another convention?
Yes.
>Is it not sufficient?
Not with current ISPF syntax.
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