For most languages that is only true for some syntactic elements. 'x := -;'
'x := y;' -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Charles Mills <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 11:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rexx calls versus branching In most languages a coding error of Foo [some syntactic element inadvertently omitted here] Bar Is a syntax error. For example, in C, x = foo bar; /* supposed to be foo + bar */ But in Rexx, Foo Bar is often syntactically correct and is equivalent to Foo || " " || Bar One person's feature is another person's trap for the unwary. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 8:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rexx calls versus branching Frank Swarbrick wrote about passing parameters. Yes, exactly correct. And not really surprising when you think about it, but it could indeed bite a newbie! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
