Rick McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

>This is working correctly.  The function name uses normal Rexx rules for
>name resolution.  If the call name is coded as a symbol, then the name
>being called is ALWAYS the uppercase version, since all symbols have as an
>eventual value the uppercase value of the symbol.  So calls to foo, Foo,
>and FOO are all calls to a function named "FOO".  This all happens before
>the search for an external function ever begins, so that code is not even
>aware of the original case.  The instruction itself has already folded the
>name to uppercase by execution time, so the original case is no longer
>available.  If a quoted string is used, then the original case is
>maintained.

Sure; I wasn't asking that.  Why does the ref manual say that a lower-case
name search will be tried?


-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own

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