On 16.04.2018 16:21, Rick McGuire wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at
> <mailto:rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at>> wrote:
>
> On 16.04.2018 14:08, Rick McGuire wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 8:04 AM, Mike Cowlishaw <m...@speleotrove.com
>> <mailto:m...@speleotrove.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> One other point I should probably make related to this is that
>> the referencing
>> operator (currently spelled "&") ...
>>
>>
>> I trust that spelling is still considered an open issue. :-)
>>
>> I'm warming to using '>' on both sides .. at least it implies some
>> sort of movement/look
>> elsewhere. My second choice would be '*' (as in C).
>>
>>
>> I could live with '>'. I'm probably as opposed to using '*' as you are
>> to '&' :-)
>>
>>
>> All other characters and character combinations that are currently
>> not valid as prefix
>> operations could be possibilities, with the exception of '&'...
>>
>> Mike
>>
> How about using '^' as the operator symbol for "variable reference"?
>
> carat has some compatibility problems with other Rexx interpreters that
> interpreted the carat as a
> logical not. I'd prefer to stay away from that. In any event, I just
> committed the changes to use
> '>' rather than '&'.
>
In case someone wants to experiment with this I just created a 64-bit Windows
version of Rick's
reference sandbox (using '>' rather than '&') which you can download from here:
<https://www.dropbox.com/sh/olh1mqfwb4brp7r/AABI1X-Le9zDCJ0gyfvMdKB8a?dl=0>.
There is a small test script "test_gt.rex" using '>' there as well.
Here
---rony
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