On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:04:34 +0000, Gibney, Dave wrote: > >Much of my growth in this field has been slow and steady. >The Rexx associative array realization is one of the "aha moments" I still >remember. > You can code FORTRAN in any language. You will sometimes be told that if your Rexx, Lisp, C++, ... code couldn't have been translated from FORTRAN by a filter with a small window it's ipso facto incomprehensible and won't pass coding standards review.
>What I'd really like (is it there and I don't know?) is a: >for "each" stem_var. > say "each" > if each = .... > other_stem.each = 'foo' > etc. > Alas, no. I'm told that's available in OO Rexx. The Rexx API services will let you enumerate compound variable elements in an assembler (e.g.) program, and the tails could be fed back to Rexx as members of a linear array. Even that won't identify compound members individually dropped after a universal assignment. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
