Hi Bob,
When I programmed PL/I 40+ year ago, lining up the END; with the body
was de rigeur. Initially, of course, that was using cards.
When ISPF (or XEDIT) came along, lining up the END: with DO/SELECT etc.
made a lot more sense since excluded lines could be shown by column
number containing DO/END/SELECT etc.
(This made debugging easier.)
Regards,
David
On 2022-06-29 10:07, Bob Bridges wrote:
You're kidding, right? That convention isn't imposed by REXX, and as far as
I've observed Lionel and I are two of only three people in the universe who
prefer it.
(And don't you be knocking our convention. Aligning the END with the rest of
the paragraph is much more sensible than sticking it out in the wrong place,
much easier to understand, as all right-thinking programmers understand - all
three of us.)
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
David Crayford
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 08:19
....I really wish the "end" scope terminater would match the "do" column
alignment. It's just another reason for me to hate on REXX when it's become common practice to uses
bizarre formatting rules.
--- On 29/06/2022 8:12 pm, Lionel B. Dyck wrote:
x = bpxwunix('find /u/user/work/',,out.,err.) do I = 1 to out.0
say out.i
end
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