On 2/07/2024 6:01 am, Hobart Spitz wrote:
- Stems are multi-key tables, not arrays.
One of the frustrations I had returning to Rexx after using C# and Java
is that stems sort-of work like maps, but are harder to use and have
pitfalls that you need to be careful to avoid.
Key-value data structures are not unusual, and other languages allow you
to define your own objects to use as keys with pretty much any
attributes you like.
- Typing and sizing are non-issues in REXX. How often has a compiled
language program needed to be updated because a field length changed or a
table overflowed?
Compiled languages also solved this problem a long time ago e.g. vector
in C++.
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Andrew Rowley
Black Hill Software
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