1. IMHO, VALUE is much easier to read 2. It is trivial to use INTERPRET to assign a lower case values. 3. I'm confident that VALUE is less expensive, but it's easy to test.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Lionel B. Dyck [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 7:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: REXX - Interpret or Value - Which is better? >From a programming standpoint which is (a) more efficient, and (b) easier to understand - Interpret or Value. Examples: /* rexx */ /* setup our defaults to start with */ istr = 'abc' vstr = istr /* value examples */ newvar = value(vstr,'def') say newvar say vstr value(vstr) newvar = value(vstr''1,'second') say newvar say vstr''1 value(vstr''1) /* interpret examples */ interpret 'istr = def' interpret 'say' istr 'istr' interpret 'istr'1 '= second' interpret 'say' istr''1 'istr'1 The main differences that I can see is that with interpret the new values are uppercase, and with value the return contains the new variable name. Lionel B. Dyck <>< Website: https://secure-web.cisco.com/1vhdaOMu99lOkLVHd1fGwL1HDR4MhII1jeez_Bt35wqky9KWMh7V8-kqZAv7_YIwF1xNlRxn9RttzO1U_2M6IFt481OFcKIWlx424rETx6I6_4vdIrTlhj9zwXEFMAQT5mc_c3v6e4H_OGmUFrbqlr9UzD0Zz__PoDT2ihXJVwU-nn-dTMvM-ya8YfvU58JXMrtbTCAJOBST578GJEt-qaAMB1TZVXDPjA3Edg4buJS6PmzorAF2t9rrcncvQff3G71A7cZVb9vCq1fWO-YvTkMxVQQwkwXftk1FVGBYR40yIohy8QmpZJZxkPsz_i-wlhXy9-rN1EeA3vDQazGP33tCPpag3CkYFqzJK_-GskA6e61zUqmrtnV8x5SRpZl21-eBJZxTzv0fOwsPW3FCT4DtHOyeG6Xqc3o62WDmxhKJI8vXyPsOgwvXGMr21-zYY/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lbdsoftware.com Github: https://secure-web.cisco.com/1GnGK-7GgbKK644_XPNi5n_MPQRya1rk39wmZOYQQ5WX_GKYb3HDlqnt9TXBUnp-Bd59TJ1FB8Vc4OoOWbup3L522mhG66K4aSZTn792Y9raT_EJs7JTA2spmKoZVsq2oGHgNT2okiwy0nAriN18K6wB8vryK9M31FdkHswC-csYXyPSTto6jzSLbB8bzsoZ_p7bfQqy11uWdGRH5TH-4w5W_cGkwbBM4TsBLueC4GdHxGIiEvjN7wlvugUqqc3ajyjFdZnygq6HFeulDoZghc8YR-RXLAyRsY1zGT9ikeF4ggOVoECgjoLcbnDIxFQXY9oOuWM858r1OURpJ0-njNTsZGoJWlnh7dJp-iS-fNVizSdtZdfbSmWZkEgFgTo2_EKPQI6kkFEvdhVFFINhufa06AQgwBioDjGj7gAY6xJGxDNY96sJT_GieNAmEgtX1/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Flbdyck "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - - - John Wooden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
