You're right - it's only when a string or a comment splits lines that continuation is implied, at least according to the last document I checked. I'd update it, but it really needs to have ANSI and OOREXX information folded in as well.
The goto is just one of the things that horrified me the first time I saw C. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 2:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: curious: Popularity & use of C on z/OS. On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:51:55 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >That's a common beginners' mistake. Try putting the label inside a do block >and see what happens. A proper goto would pop what needs to be popped and no >more. See <http://www.rexxla.org/Newsletter/9812safe.html>. > Yes. There I also read: Continuation REXX allows implicit continuation; a statement is treated as continued if it would otherwise be syntactically invalid. ... ??? Not in any Rexx I know. Is this perhaps a peculiarity of OS/2 Rexx? And C has an improper GOTO. It allows branching into a block. It's implementation dependent whether initializations are performed then. Ugh! _______________________________________ >From: Jack J. Woehr >Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 3:40 PM > >On 1/14/2018 11:35 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> REXX doesn't have a goto > >Sure it does: SIGNAL -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
