As I suspected, the manual is wrong.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Dana Mitchell [mitchd...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 2:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: REXX MVSVAR SYMDEF behavoiur foo = SYSNAME ..................................................... REXXTRY on TSO say 'Foo:' MVSVAR('SYMDEF','foo') Foo: ..................................................... REXXTRY on TSO On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:42:30 +0000, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: >Even if you accept "the sky's the limit" for undefined behavior, there's still >the undocumented issue of whether it is permissible to include a leading >ampersand or a trailing period with the symbol, which is permissible in the >SYMDEF statement. Also, I'd like to see whether the following behaves as >documented: > > foo = SYSNAME > say MVSVAR('SYMDEF','foo') > > >-- >Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
