There's been a long thread in comp.lang.rexx in the last few days from
someone trying to get external functions to work on an Ubuntu system.
This was ooREXX 4.1.2
The user's problem turned out to be due to him making function calls with
unquoted function names, which were folded to uppercase by
This is working correctly. The function name uses normal Rexx rules for
name resolution. If the call name is coded as a symbol, then the name
being called is ALWAYS the uppercase version, since all symbols have as an
eventual value the uppercase value of the symbol. So calls to foo, Foo,
and
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote:
This is working correctly. The function name uses normal Rexx rules for
name resolution. If the call name is coded as a symbol, then the name
being called is ALWAYS the uppercase version, since all symbols have as an
eventual value the uppercase value
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
jn.ml.sfrg...@letterboxes.org wrote:
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote:
This is working correctly. The function name uses normal Rexx rules for
name resolution. If the call name is coded as a symbol, then the name
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote:
Because it IS part of the search order. But that really only applies to
the searches using file extensions. This is not done with the raw name
because it resulted in too many false positives with non-rexx programs
(this was actually added at one
