> Why suggest a TSO dependency, rather than "... get IBM to port OOREXX to z/OS
> ..."
1. Because REXX is part of TSO/E even though it doesn't require a TSO
environment
2. Because REXX has faciilities that require TSO-speciic code, e.g., ATTN,
stack
> Think of IRXJCL and OMVS.
I assumed that they wouldn't port it in such a fashion as to require a TSO
environment, but I agree that any RFE on the matter should spell that out.
> Does that work even for interior qualifiers, such as:
> A.FIRST[]THIRD? /* Any way you slice it. */
That's not valid syntax, and REXX doesn't have a concept of qualifiers. I don't
believe that a right bracket followed by a symbol is a valid abbutment. It's
certainly valid in OOREXX to use expressions such as
A[FIRST[]||THIRD]
A[FIRST[] THIRD]
A.FIRST[SECOND]
I would consider mixing the period and subscript notations for stem variables
to be bad form, and confusing, but it's perfectly legal.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Subject: Re: Rexx stem variable question
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 08:20:22 +0300, turgut kalfaoğlu wrote:
>
>a.b. = 0
>does not work..
>
Oh, it works. It simply hasn't the semantic Charles wished for.
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On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 06:12:21 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
>If you could get IBM to port OOREXX to TSO ...
>
Why suggest a TSO dependency, rather than "... get IBM to port OOREXX to z/OS
..."
Think of IRXJCL and OMVS.
> ...then you would be able to have stem variables whose values are stems and
> do something like
>
>IsStepInit.Userid[] = 0
>
Does that work even for interior qualifiers, such as:
A.FIRST[]THIRD? /* Any way you slice it. */
-- gil
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