On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:04:59 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
>
>>>parm.1="/userhome/sa/myrexx.rx"
>>>parm.1="myrexx.rx"
>
>Hmm, I looked again at that posted code and found many such double assignments.
>
I frequently do similarly for testing:
/* Second assignment prevails. (Comments are good!) */
parm.1 = "parm for testing"
parm.1 = "parm for production"
... and simply swap the two lines to switch to testing mode. No need
to comment.
>In fact, the first parm.1 could be deleted or commented out. But the second
>one is not looking 'right' for me too.
>
Can't tell out of context.
>I'm also not comfortable with this snippet:
>
>"pipe p2fd."
>pipe2out = p2fd.2
>pipe2in = p2fd.1
>map.0=-1
>map.0=pipe2in
>
>What if p2fd.1 is not numeric? Then you cannot use map.0
>
If SYSCALL "pipe p2fd." succeeds, it sets p2fd.1 and p2fd.2 to
numeric values. It might be prudent to check status in RC and
RETVAL.
>The OP needs to ask for help + review for his REXX program.
>
On review I'm satisfied with the excerpts posted.
-- gil
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