Actually, REXX does have nested variables; that's one of the things that you can doo with the VALUE() BIF.
There's no such thing as an &variable in REXX. As for turning off substitution of variables, if you want a constant than use a constant, as in SAY 'foo='foo address isredit 'change all' tempdsn1 tempdsn2 -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Schmitt, Michael [michael.schm...@dxc.com] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 5:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please CLIST has nested variables, REXX doesn't. And CLIST has keyword style parms, while REXX arguments are strictly positional. And, in REXX you can't turn off first level substitution of &Variables when sending commands to ISREDIT, which makes it tricky to do Edit macros, such as "change all &TEMPDSN to &TEMPDSN2". But CLIST gets negative points for the way it wants to evaluate EVERYTHING, recursively. REXX is so much better but I want to ask Mike Cowlishaw what he was thinking in making uninitialized variables default to their own name. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 4:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please Steve Thompson wrote, in part: >Oh, I haven't had to deal with it for a while, but as I recall >there is a function that CLIST can do that REXX couldn't (well >back in the 1990s). I wonder if that is still true. Perhaps easily parsing a typical TSO command: verb arg1(value1) arg2(value2a,value2b) ? You can certainly do it in Rexx, but (and I've never written a CLIST in my life) ISTR that CLIST makes it much easier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
