On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:14:38 +0100, Rupert Reynolds  wrote:
>
>MegaMathics in decimal I'd already done years ago, including trig, logs,
>etc.
>
I'd imagine it would be a challenge to support Rexx's unlimited
precision.  Truncated Taylor series would work, but performance
would be abysmal.  I suspect that's the reason Rexx lacks an
elementary functions library.

>This all started because I wanted typed Rexx with (what I call)
>conventional scoping. My middle name is Underestimator :-)
>
PROCEDURE EXPOSE does some of that, but statically nested
functions are missing.  what I miss most are ITERATE and
LEAVE naming a variable exposed from a calling function.

-- 
gil

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