On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:12:32 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>While there's no ambiguity, using VALUE or WITH as a variable name is
>definitely bad form.
>
>FWIW, I prefer the more verbose keyword(values) syntax of PL/I.
>
I was wishing for an instruction form in which I could issue a single
command to an environment expression in a single REXX instruction.
I imagined I could do this as:
ADDRESS ( expression ) [command]
I i can still do this with poorer syntax checking as:
interpret 'ADDRESS '''||(expression)''' '''command''''
provided ( expression ) evaluates to a single symbol.
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>From: Paul Gilmartin
>Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2025 3:57 PM
> .....
>If I had been emperor of the REXX Universe, I would have
>provided only two forms:
> ADDRESS symbol [command]
>and
> ADDRESS ( expression ) [command]
--
gil
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