On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:36:02 -0400, Bob Woodside wrote: > >> Alas, there are still some things that you can do in CLIST but not >> REXX. Fortunately, you don't need them very often. >> >Hmm.... Such as? > Modal use of linemode editor, available alike in CLIST and CMS EXEC, but not in EXEC2 or Rexx. If you ever need it.
Multiple substitution/rescan in strings. Challenging enough to use that it may be considered a bug rather than a feature. "make" and "C" preprocessor do something similar. A lot of programmers hereabouts don't like those very much, either. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
