It is a capital error to assume unfamiliarity just because sombody eschews a
language feature. I am a very heavy user of abuttment in REXX. I agree with
Wayne that there is a good case for using variables in this particular case,
although I would quarrel with his coice of name. The constructs '"' and "'" can
be hard to visually distinquisheverywhere they appear. The style
apost = "'"
quote = '"'
...
foo = apost|bar||apost
concentrate the problem at the point of definition.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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Subject: Style (was: LISTDSI - ...)
On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 14:25:09 +1100, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
>Quoted strings always gave me grief. I started to use Q='7D'X and
>concatenate my strings this way:
>
>Str = Q||DsNAme||Q.
>LISTDSI(Str)
>
I find that less transparent and surely more verbose than:
LISTDSI( "'"DsNAme"'" ) or even:
LISTDSI( ''''DsNAme'''' )
Programmers who eschew concatenation by abuttal are
flaunting their unfamiliarity with the language.
(But how does this play against the wise principle that
self-defining terms should be assigned to symbols
rather than used repeatedly:
TWO = '2'
SAY TWO + TWO
?)
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gil
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