What's wrong with ANSI stream I/O?

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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
>
>
>

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