On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 20:59:26 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>> But I read comments from Rexx programmers who yet insist that compound
>>symbols must have positive integer tails and the upper bound in the 0th
>>member.
>
>What is a "Rexx programmer"? It doesn't sound like they actually know REXX.
>
FOTRAN refugees?
>> Relying on PROCEDURE to reset ADDRESS, SIGNAL ON, etc.?
>
>Reset? AFAIK, the environment is intact after return. Or do you mean falling
>into a procedure statement, which I had assume was invalid.
>
I've seen such as:
F: procedure
ADDRESS ISREDIT
[ ... code ... ]
ADDRESS TSO
RETURN
Or similarly inserting a needless ADDRESS after the call to F.
>> Using relational expressions as arithmetic terms?
>
>Perfectly reasonable if you're used to a language with bit or Boolean data
>types.
>
I'll confess to having replaced:
if A==B then X = 'FooBar'; else X = ''
with:
X = copies( 'FooBar', A==B )
>______________________________________
>From: Paul Gilmartin
>Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 3:48 PM
>Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue
>multitasking issue)
> ...
>(To what are you replying? Did this thread come from BITNET?)
>
I was misled because someone started the first ply of a changed subject with:
Subject: Re: Unreadable ...
-- gil
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