Re: Nested Clists

2013-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <6758925306607968.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu>, on 08/16/2013 at 10:40 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: >Which I attribute, in turn, to excessive[1] exposure to Assembler's >inconsistent syntax. It's always a mistake to expect rules for one language to apply to another. Of course, poor

Re: Nested Clists

2013-08-16 Thread John Gilmore
I like the notion of "further muddling reader's confusion", even though I don't fully understand it. Formal languages differ in syntax and programmers need to come to terms with these differences, which will not go aweay any time soon With my young students, who are too bright to be models for e

Re: Nested Clists

2013-08-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Thanks for your expanded example in an earlier ply. On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:34:20 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>Which has nothing to do with nesting, CLIST, or TSO; it's simply Rexx >>syntax rules, > >Not even that; it's a misunderstanding of REXX syntax rules. > Which I attribute, i

Re: Nested Clists

2013-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <6ad462b1-fe57-4cd0-99c3-e51ecf16c...@aim.com>, on 08/16/2013 at 07:24 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: >Which has nothing to do with nesting, CLIST, or TSO; it's simply Rexx >syntax rules, Not even that; it's a misunderstanding of REXX syntax rules. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

Re: Nested Clists

2013-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <701042851-1376627055-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-766543157-@b4.c1.bise6.blackberry>, on 08/16/2013 at 04:24 AM, Ted MacNEIL said: >Just with REXX it must be: "%EXEC" (or, "%CLIST"). Classic misunderstanding of REXX. The expression must *evaluate* to %foo; the quotes are appro

Re: Nested Clists

2013-08-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2013-08-15, at 22:24, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > You can call CLIST from CLIST with %clist. > Or EXEC from, etc. > Just with REXX it must be: "%EXEC" (or, "%CLIST"). > Which has nothing to do with nesting, CLIST, or TSO; it's simply Rexx syntax rules, even as: say %EXEC /* Is a syntax error

Re: Nested Clists

2013-08-15 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:20:50 To: Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Nested Clists On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:58:17 -0500, Raul Digestani wrote: >It is possible call a Clist in the form %Clistname from other (main) Clist? Or >only we can use EXEC command? >

Re: Nested Clists

2013-08-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:58:17 -0500, Raul Digestani wrote: >It is possible call a Clist in the form %Clistname from other (main) Clist? Or >only we can use EXEC command? >The implicit call seems more versatile than EXEC cmd. so it scans all sysproc >library. >Thanks in advance - Raul. > OTOH, th

Re: Nested Clists

2013-08-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <4987517241938904.wa.rdigestanigmail@listserv.ua.edu>, on 08/15/2013 at 02:58 PM, Raul Digestani said: >It is possible call a Clist in the form %Clistname from other (main) >Clist? Well, examples in z/OS TSO/E CLISTs, SA22-7781-05 do so, e.g., 5.4.3 &SYSPROC: IF &STR(&SYSPROC) =

Nested Clists

2013-08-15 Thread Raul Digestani
It is possible call a Clist in the form %Clistname from other (main) Clist? Or only we can use EXEC command? The implicit call seems more versatile than EXEC cmd. so it scans all sysproc library. Thanks in advance - Raul. -- For