Flogging this terminally ill equine late in the game, but gosh, relative to
#1, it is not a literal (ha ha) answer but does it not solve the problem?
Foo = "blah blah" || ,
"blah blah"
I would think that MFC would have preferred that to "ugly."
And regarding #2, similarly
Bar = "blah blah" || X2C("0A") || "blah blah"
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Seymour J Metz
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 4:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Coding for the future
I can see him agreeing that an expression involving two distinct strings is
not what he meant; that tells me nothing about what he did mean.
Specifically, it does not tell me whether he meant:
1. A string literal running over two source lines
whose value does not include an embedded new line.
2. A string literal whose value includes an embedded new line
With either meaning, " I wish Rexx supported multi-line strings." remains a
reasnoable desire, in the sense that REXX does not currently support it.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
