> However, I think the current style is understandable. I did intend to put
> a clarifying statement in the section on how to read the syntax diagrams
> for this point. I'll be sure and do that.
>
> Sure, the current syntax diagrams are definitely understandable,but as I
said I jumped on it today with the optional resource ID parameter.
> It already has a statement that in all cases, the text rather than the
> syntax diagram should be considered definitive. If you couple that
> statement with knowledge that in ooRexx if you omit an argument you must
> use the place holder comma, I don't think there is any ambiguity.
>
>
As with a lot of other things in this generally very good documentation
I've not taken the time to read everything from page one as one should,
perhaps because Rexx as such was nothing new to me when I started to get
acquainted with ooRexx.
I'm not going to go back and change all the already done syntax diagrams.
> If some one wishes to prepare a patch that changes *all* the syntax
> diagrams at one time to the style you propose, I'll gladly apply the patch
> and use that style from then on.
>
>
I fully understand this position, and my comment was more academic than
asking for a change.
Thanks,
Staffan
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