Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
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.
I know that too.
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.
I did not say they had. I said "it is just as easy, and quicker, to put
strings in quotes."
That is what I said,
No, you said 'So I assume that "ISPEXEC ..." is calling ISPEXEC
directly', and thast assumption is incorrect.
You are right: I should have said "is calling ISPEXEC indirectly". But I
was thinking in terms of ISPEXEC itself being called by "ISPEXEC ...",
rather than whether the call was then direct or indirect. Thanks for
noticing/correcting my lack of attention to detail.
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, I know that. But "ISREDIT ..." is quicker to type than ADDRESS
ISREDIT ... et al. - and it is only the results that matter to me. So
why should I spend 15 minutes typing ADDRESS when using quotes will take
me only 10 minutes? The REXX code will execute in seconds either way. It
is then typically executed only once - just to save time from making my
changes, or doing whatever else, manually. So I have hundreds of these
'adhoc' REXX and Clist things (I name them @0000000/1/2/3 etc., as what
they are called is irrelevant) and all I want is quick results, so I can
carry on with other work afterwards.
Yes, by IPCS call I mean expressions beginning with IPCS
Then it's indirect.
Sure: but so what? If I'm analyzing a dump, all I'm interested in is the
results - not in whether my IPCS REXX is direct or indirect. If I use a
hammer, I could not care less about which company made it and what color
its handle is: all that matters to me is whether it hits nails.
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.
Are you being serious, or just wasting my time with your platitudes? Is
there anything else you think I need to know? If yes, could you please
put all the things you think I need to know in a single list and send
that to me so I can send it to the trash folder. Thanks.
I do understand both.
Your references to quotes suggest otherwise.
[1] Assuming that F and ALL are uninitialized and you are not
trapping NOVALUE
Tut tut .... Is that it now? Ta ta
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