OOREXX is also missing some nice ANSI syntax.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2022 12:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Rexx routine to dump all variables when debugging?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:42:50 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>Perhaps, but oorexx uses that nomenclature, and OREXX is where 
>SysDumpVariables came in.
>
However the OP is concerned with TSO Rexx.

>BTW, I tested and SYMBOL() returns VAR for dropped compound variables;
>
That is an incompatibility between oorexx and ANSI Rexx, then.  "Default" might
be correct for the former; it is notionally wrong for the latter.  What does 
VALUE()
return?

> ... if the stem is dropped it returns LIT. So the behavior of SYMBOL is not 
> consistent with the behavior of SysDumpVariables.

--
gil

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