What's wrong with ANSI stream I/O? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2025 9:58 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: In IBM-land, AFP means... External Message: Use Caution My (vanity, typed, bytecode) language tries to be succinct while adopting the principle of least surprise demonstrated by Rexx. And 'say' was the best I could do for stream-oriented output... unless anyone can think of a better one? ;-) } on err { /* boilerplate, default if not specified */ dump HCF } say 'Hello, world.' } Roops On Thu, 19 Jun 2025, 06:59 Tom Brennan, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/18/2025 8:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > And in BASIC, "PRINT" (still) means "Display on Terminal." > > That still makes more sense than "SAY" in REXX > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqi70YWbuO0&t=23s > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
