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

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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, ...?
    
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>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

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