Thanks for your expanded example in an earlier ply. On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:34:20 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>Which has nothing to do with nesting, CLIST, or TSO; it's simply Rexx >>syntax rules, > >Not even that; it's a misunderstanding of REXX syntax rules. > Which I attribute, in turn, to excessive[1] exposure to Assembler's inconsistent syntax. Programmers nurtured on such gruel expect all languages to be similarly chaotic. So the TSO/E Rexx Reference tediously presents examples of quoting data set names in the ALLOCATE command, failing to differentiate between Rexx's rules and ALLOCATE's conventions; serving only to further muddle readers' confusion.
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