On 28.09.2025 15:04, Hobart Spitz wrote:

IMHO, yes.  It keeps with the philosophy of general flexibility and "letting the programmer do what they want when they want" even if we can't think of a reason right now.

Thank you for your feedback, Hobart!

Any other thoughts?

---rony


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On Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 05:49 Rony G. Flatscher <[email protected]> wrote:

    ooRexx being a dynamic language usually allows for defining, e.g. classes 
statically with
    directives, but also dynamically at runtime instantiating .class (and 
creating and assigning
    methods
    and the like).

    The ::options directive has become quite powerful and it would be helpful 
to be able to a)
    query all
    package's current settings and b) allowing to change the (::options 
related) package settings at
    runtime ("dynamic"). (Maybe a proper Options class may be helpful which 
allows for
    interrogating and
    setting options.)

    This may help in situations like using (maybe older) Rexx programs for 
which some settings
    should be
    changed (like "any syntax", but also "trace ..." comes to mind, etc.).

    Would that be seen as a desired improvement?

    ---rony

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