Hey Glenn,
This is Phillip Bridges, Bob's son. I'm not sure whether you've
been told but dad passed away May 5th. If there's anything you need that I
can help you retrieve, just reach out when you can. Here's my info.
Phillip Bridges
336.508.1956
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-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Knickerbocker <n...@bestweb.net>
Sent: Friday, May 9, 2025 23:36
To: Open Object Rexx Users <oorexx-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Oorexx-users] Detecting invalid dates
On Fri, 9 May 2025 17:53:28 +0200 (CEST), Walter Pachl wrote:
>With Use Arg Strict you can default the missing arguments!?!
>> Glenn Knickerbocker <n...@bestweb.net> hat am 09.05.2025 17:14 CEST
geschrieben:
>> I'd want to make this more general with:
>> Use Arg date, format, sep
>> But it's a pain when a function cares whether an argument is omitted vs.
>> blank or null.
No, other way around--Use Strict Arg *fails* if arguments are missing.
And you can't even provide a default separator based on the format, because
some formats don't allow a separator at all.
I never got why Mike didn't allow the null string to substitute for an
unused argument in the original built-in functions. There weren't any cases
where it would have been ambiguous, because the optional arguments were all
numbers, characters, or words. But even if he had allowed it originally, it
still couldn't have worked for the separators when those were added to
DATE(), because they *can* be the null string.
¬R
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