In <0717843179209840.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on
08/27/2012
   at 09:03 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:

>But the bare word handling is treacherous,

Indeed; there is a contingent that advocate always having NOVALUE
active. But I find that the usefulness is enough to justify the risk.

>It would be precious if Rexx supported expressions in compound tails

See the VALUE() function. Or use OOREXX[1].

[1] I wish that there were ports for CMS and TSO.
 
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