On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:56:42 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>No, the evaluation of the operand is the same as for any other expression and
>the interpretation of the evaluated operand is the same as for any other
>statement in REXX, including the treatment of apostrophes and quotation marks:
>
>interpret 'foo = "bar baz"; say "foo="foo'
>
Yes, but the naive programmer is apt to be astonished by such as:
drop X
A = X
X = 'Roman numeral ten'
interpret 'say' A
interpret 'say A'
interpret say '''A'''
generally start my EXECs with SIGNAL ON NOVALUE.
So I am astonished sooner than later during testing
and repairs are easier.
-- gil
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