On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 12:03:08 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote:
>
>2) There were few decent/public examples of how to write function packages for 
>it. 
>    ...
Lack of closure:  I don't believe a function package, much
less a command environment can be coded in REXX.  those
must be coded in another language, therefore less portable.

I've written some utility packages which I concatenate with
SYSIN, REPRO to a temporary member, and execute that.
Ugh!

Lack of support for instream data.

Lack of elementary functions, made a challenge by the 
desire to support arbitrary precision.  (Can a function
package, in whatever language determine the caller's
NUMERIC settings at the instant of call?)

-- 
gil

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