In <[email protected]>, on 07/25/2012
at 04:59 AM, CM Poncelet <[email protected]> said:
>Yes I know that. ADDRESS ISREDIT, on its own, is sufficient to
>cause all commands that follow it to be interpreted as ISREDIT
>ones (without quotes
The need, or lack of need, for quotes has nothing to do with whether
you use a stand-alone ADDRESS statement. You need quotest around text
that you want treated as a constant. You don't need quotes around an
expression that will evaluate to the value you want.
>But I do not normally use ADDRESS except for IPCS: it is just as
>easy, and quicker, to put strings in quotes.
The two have nothing to do with each other.
>That is what I said,
No, you said 'So I assume that "ISPEXEC ..." is calling ISPEXEC
directly', and thast assumption is incorrect.
>except that I use quotes instead of ADDRESS.
They are unrelated to each other. All of these are equivalent[1]:
ADDRESS ISREDIT "F ALL"
ADDRESS ISREDIT F ALL
ADDRESS ISREDIT
"F ALL"
F ALL
>Yes, by IPCS call I mean expressions beginning with IPCS
Then it's indirect.
>I am not referring to REXX invoking other environments - which
>requires either an ADDRESS (which I do not use) or quotes (which
>I do use).
Quotes are irrelevant to the issue. Whether you need them has nothing
to do with whether you use ADDRESS.
>I do understand both.
Your references to quotes suggest otherwise.
[1] Assuming that F and ALL are uninitialized and you are not
trapping NOVALUE
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