It must have been that way for a while; I get the same result on 3.2 :-( David Ashley wrote: > Rick - > > I have been having a long running discussion with Fernando on some other > topics and this came up. This is definitely a bug in 4.0 IMHO. Any time > you use a quoted string as the stem tail it trys to pass that string to > the address environment for processing. Here is some sample output from > rexxtry.rex. > > a."xxx yy z" = 'hello' > sh: 0: command not found > rc = 127 ...................................... rexxtry.rex on LINUX > > Am I just off my rocker? This has got to be a bug. > > David Ashley > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Fwd: stems > Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:41:05 +0100 > From: FERNANDO MANSITO CABALLERO <[email protected]> > To: David Ashley <[email protected]> > > > > Dear Mr. Ashley, > > Thanks you very much for your patient and kind explanation. > > If you allow me, although the two expressions are indeed completely > different the result of the two of them is the same: at present you can > use any string enclosed in square brackets as a tail component, > but /only if it is the final component:/ > // > *a.[o sole mio] = "che si fa" --> che si fa*, but *a.[o sole mio].1 = "a > la una" --> 0 is not a command* > *a.["o sole mio"] = "e non si fa" --> e non si fa*, but *a.["o sole > mio"].a = "y a las dos" --> 0 is not a command* > > Although I would never imagine that there be no pertinent reasons for > the present situation, for my purposes I would prefer that issue solved > the "tolerant" way (use any string as a tail component) and please not > the reverse (illegalise the use of any bracketed string as the ending > component). > > By the way, rule 1 (quoted strings become indexes) does not seem to > work: *a."o sole mio" = "hello" --> 0 is not a command, a."pppp" = > "hello" --> 0 is not a command* (!) > > If I may, I have also noticed that if you EXPOSE a stem from within a > PROCEDURE, USE ARG it and change some components, the stem reverts to > uninitialised or, there being a default, to that default for all the > unchanged components unless you recur to RETURNing the stem, which may > be a bit rigid. > > Thank you very much again for your patience and best regards > fernando mansito > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:57 PM, David Ashley > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Fernando - > > I believe your problem in the understanding of what is really going > on with the stem tail evaluations. > > a.[o sol mia] is NOT equivalent to a.["o sol mia"] > > When Rexx evaluates a stem tail one of two things happen. > > 1. If the tail contains quotes strings then then the quoted string > become the index. > 2. If the tail contains unquoted strings then they are considered to > be variable references and the value of the variable is substituted. > If that variable is not defined then the name of the variable is > converted to upper case and then substituted. > > Thus for your example > > a.[o sol mia] is equivalent to a.["O SOL MIA"] since none of > those tail variables has been defined. Thus a.["O SOL MIA"] is not > equal to a.["o sol mia"]. Those are two different indexes. > > I hope this helps. If this is unclear please let me know. > > David Ashley > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
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