Gil wrote:
>I call that weakness a tie with lack of regular expressions. There's a
similar
>bias in the IBM community to consider regexen Bad.
Well, we could have a whole 'nother thread on whether regex are A Good Thing
or not ("now you have two problems" and all that), but actually there was at
least one regex implementation for Rexx, as a function package, so it sort
of winds up being (arguably!) the same point.
David Crayford complained about Rexx being typeless and lacking lexical
scoping. These are considered strengths by some of us. And PROCEDURE gives
you lexical scoping of a sort, no?
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