As I suspected, the manual is wrong.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Dana Mitchell [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 2:42 PM To: [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> 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 [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
