Yes, a literal string followed immediately by the symbol x is considered a
hex literal. It's always been that way.

Rick

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 1:54 PM Ruurd Idenburg <ru...@idenburg.net> wrote:

> Is the result below what should be expected: 'something'x taking
> precedent over implied concatenation?
>
> Ruurd
>
> 'rexx -v'
> Open Object Rexx Version 5.0.0 r12100
> Build date: Jul 21 2020
> Addressing mode: 64
> Copyright (c) 1995, 2004 IBM Corporation. All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 2005-2020 Rexx Language Association. All rights reserved.
> This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
> terms
> of the Common Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution or at
> http://www.oorexx.org/license.html
>    rc = 0 ........................................ rexxtry.rex on LINUX
> zoom=12;x=13,y=3;loc=zoom'/'x'/'y'.png'
>    Oooops ! ... try again.     Invalid hexadecimal or binary string.
>                                Only 0-9, a-f, A-F, and whitespace
> characters are valid in a hexadecimal string; found "/".
>
>
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