On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 09:13:24 -0500, Jon Perryman wrote: >On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:40:05 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > >>...am I the only one who SMH at the documentation for things like ISFEXEC >> (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=language-issuing-commands-isfexec >> )? >> It reads like it was written by someone who doesn't quite understand how >> variables/literals work in Rexx: > >Why would anyone expect SDSF support & dev to know REXX when it's not part of >their job? REXX documentation belongs with REXX and in the case of quoting, >it's only mentioned because SDSF support received multiple calls caused by >special characters. Since most people go directly to the examples, it doesn't >surprise me this has never been corrected. > What correction would you expect? The TSO documentation teems with instances of quoting rather than references to rules, and the JCL documentation of temporary data set names lacks a clear reference to "Determining Equivalent JCL".
REXX lacks call-by-reference, expected by programmers of most other languages, in lieu of which it provides a pseudo-call-by-name, confusing such programmers (even sometimes me.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
