On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:30:41 -0500, zMan wrote:
>Semicolons?😀
>
(My laptop doesn't speak emoji.)
Semicolons, yes, but:
do <=> {
end <=> }
switch <=> SELECT
...
I think Rexx got much of its lexical flavor from PL/I. But that's easy for
me to say becase I don't know PL/I.
>On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 6:48 PM Steve Smith wrote:
>
>> REXX is lot like C? I can't think of anything they have in common beyond
>> the minimum basics of any procedural language.
Bless Rexx for making ';' and newline very nearly interchangeable, in contrast
to POSIX Shell script, where they aren't.
-- gil
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