On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:29:05 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>But the bare word handling is treacherous, > >Indeed; there is a contingent that advocate always having NOVALUE >active. ... > That would be me.
Restoring your snippage: >>It would be precious if Rexx supported expressions in compound tails, >>such as: >> >> stem.['FooBar'] >> >>so I shouldn't be forced rather to code: >> >> tail = 'FooBar'; stem.tail >See the VALUE() function. Or use OOREXX[1]. > How would you employ VALUE() to simplify this? Example? (I'll test it if you haven't access to a system) >[1] I wish that there were ports for CMS and TSO. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
