Thanks for pointing that out. The NetRexx discussion was about product release number, i.e. the number that the translator tells you in the logo. The code states ‘language level’ indeed, but as far as I can go back this was never different from the product release level. (It was a product only for a short time, I think from VM/ESA 2.3 to z/VM 5.1).
> On 15 Mar 2020, at 13:45, Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That is the language level, not a product release level. ooRexx also has a > language level that is decimal in form, but that is only updated when there > is a change to the language handled by the interpreter. Bug fixes would never > bump that, nor would new class libraries. > > Rick > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 8:42 AM René Jansen <rvjan...@xs4all.nl > <mailto:rvjan...@xs4all.nl>> wrote: > Not that I am really interested in this, but for your information: CMS and > TSO Rexx traditionally has had a decimal version number: 3.40, 3.48. 4.02. > This is without reason: its inventor is more involved with decimal arithmetic > than the man in the street. There was a semi-heated discussion in the NetRexx > architecture board some years ago where Mike Cowlishaw did not budge. Out of > respect for him I kept the NetRexx numbering like this; NetRexx 3.09 will be > released very soon. > > The argument is that decimal version numbers can be easily compared. IBM > never changed this for mainframe Rexx. > > best regards, > > René. >
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