The stem.0 convention is also used with OOREXX. There's nothing nonstandard about using that convention.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 1:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rexx stem variable question On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 10:05:35 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >Of course, technically that is not a Rexx language issue. I am looking at >Cowlishaw "The Rexx Language" and "EXECIO" does not appear in the index. > It's conventional, but peculiar to the IBM world: CMS, z/OS, (OS/2?), ...? uni-REXX, ...? https://secure-web.cisco.com/14DGIEQ87vg5kIvuzm4gccdCGYiOUDlMoCOQbVUSV85eLAWtuFR8gTiyzGrait7dQkeD38YoQvoKwIJa7QNwPWJ-E6H93kGFMNVLTMLK2NBh7X6cnVt7et7zqvg850bk7JTiUu-1G4EVdTrbmwmKZoVvBEREtOj8HMl3ee7w1rh7WnT74RH9eC1amD6lLLyjtFsCVuK6K4SVPL1F-VE8bpjqffdJXRfEZBp0MBPNtfcXEeNzyjqwQWcR4wv0He2ylT_akMUqehATuTyKlfNuNaQ1DzIpfA0zz9tirpznIv_Rr1aJ_1YTtMGvPw7m9kvKxDUGOKFywu8ZDceEx_aU4z2Ii38NNcCfTGfyc5E3d_cph1GDHKnCi5o-ooVU8YuJfj3yJZdKV6_kaupvDO4YeK4GOk7TalsrJ4heyHjnBJLNa-uP7COxb7to4lJ6NiQnV/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wrkgrp.com%2Funirexx%2Findex.html >I could write a Rexx command processor any way that I wanted. I could have it >take a Rexx variable name and prepend stems onto it and return its results >that way. > Hard to enumerate them, even with API. > ... Or append tails consisting of Roman numerals. > It's nonstandard but broadly conventional to use numeric tails with a count in stem.0. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
