On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:49:53 +0100, Colin Paice <[email protected]> wrote: >I think SAY came about because of history. In the beginning, most people >using REX(X) ran it on CMS interactively and it chatted to the end user >running the exec.
Mike's explanation in The REXX Language was that "SAY . . . typically causes it to be displayed (or spoken, or typed, etc.) to the user." He had blind friends (and/or antagonists) using talking terminals among the early users, so for them SAY really did mean "say." ¬R ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
