I've inherited responsibility for a huge REXX app that uses that technique to pass many values back and forth between external routines. Each module has two routines, one for packing up a list of variables and another for unpacking them at the other end. I find it difficult to understand, but if I'd had to write the thing from scratch maybe I wouldn't have come up with a better way to do it, either.
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* The difference between theory and practice is wider in practice than it is in theory. -C J Date */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Martin Packer Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 10:16 My main use case for interpret is passing back a string with stem variable assignments from a procedure. Then the caller of the procedure interprets the string - which has semicolons to separate the assignment statements. I don't much like it but it seems the best I can do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
