Well, I've only been using REXX for 35 years. The problems that I have seen from not quoting words have been few and far between, not nearly as many as, e.g., problems related to continuation, omitting a period in a stem, incorrect capitalization in a string literal.
BTDT,GTS -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Phil Smith III [li...@akphs.com] Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 8:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Friday Follies/Why won't this work?/TSO Rant #387 Metz wrote: > Running with signal on novalue and quoting everything leads to hard-to-debug > surprises errors when you get the case wrong (present example is typical.) ;-) After almost 40 years of writing Rexx, I've never had that problem. Quoting literals avoids far more problems than it causes, as does SIGNAL ON NOVALUE. You want hard-to-debug surprises, try not quoting a literal and then having someone define a variable that happens to match your literal token. ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
