On Tuesday, 11/22/2005 at 01:06 CST, Brian Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You misunderstand Alan's post, or he was not clear enough. The only > syntax checking REXX will do is that the line is a valid REXX expression > (and all that entails). The question mark will not cause a REXX syntax > error because it is a valid constant string. Some other special > characters will cause REXX syntax errors because they are REXX operators. > Neither the question mark nor the period are REXX operators.
Technically, a question mark is a symbol, not a constant string. That is, you can assign a value to ?, but you cannot assign a value to the period. The ? symbol has an initial value of '?'. But you're right: Neither is a Rexx operator and so there is no syntax error. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
