A simple true=1;false=0 should suffice for clarity.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2020 12:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: REXX true/false (was Constant Identifiers) I don't see any advantage in 'Y', because then you have to code IF or WHEN variable = 'Y'. The advantage of Boolean is clarity in something like:- /* Rexx */ TRUE = (1=1) ... SELECT WHEN logmode = "D4A32782" & (GotASCII & GotVBMrecord) THEN do (from a similar exec I found in archives, not the same one) The disadvantage is that it looks and works like a constant, but it's a variable. Rupert On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 at 17:03, scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > I have done things like true =‘Y’ and then > > If true > .......... > end > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
