Well, you could do

   symvalue = 'MVSVAR'('SYMDEF','SYMNAME')

I doubt that it will pass code review.


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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of 
Jeremy Nicoll [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 5:08 PM
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Subject: Re: REXX MVSVAR SYMDEF behavoiur

On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, at 20:07, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> MVSVAR is not an external functions

If someone was foolish enough to write their own one, perhaps
having it call the built-in MVSVAR() wouldn't it be possible for
an exec to call the local one in preference to the built-in one?

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Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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