On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 09:27:51 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>It is SO counter-intuitive to put the name of a variable in quotes. You would
>not code ENQ ('MYMAJOR','MYMINOR',E,8).
>
It depends on your language background. Most generally:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction
It the difference between:
"The Rexx Reference" contains 18 characters
and
The Rexx Reference contains 3332539 characters.
>Once you realize that EXECIO is an external command, not a language keyword,
>you start to get it.
>
Yes. I'd prefer:
An expression which is a fully-qualified data set name
over such as:
"'MY.FULLY.QUALIFIED.DATA.SET.NAME'"
... in the many places where the latter occurs and is over-explained.
The user should be familiar with the Rexx General Concepts chapter and
neither generalize nor instantiate, probably incorrectly, from the several
examples.
-- gil
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