On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 16:06:22 +0000, Schmitt, Michael wrote:
> .
>CLIST has no syntax for quoted text. It is just text. In this case, CLIST is
>passing the string to ISREDIT, and /that's/ where the quoting it, i.e. it is
>part of the Edit macro syntax.
> ...
>This lll is why I hate coding in CLIST. It is a language that fights against
>the programmer at every opportunity. For example, CLIST is trying to evaluate
>everything that's in the quoted string, so if you have & or something that
>looks like an operator, it will fail.
>
As you said, "CLIST has no syntax for quoted text." And, apparently, no
way to escape special characters.
>I will rewrite the ILISTS as REXX before making changes to them, but that is
>easier said than done. CLISTs tend to be spaghetti code. And it doesn't help
>that REXX gives uninitialized variables their own name as a value.
>
Use SIGNAL ON NOVALUE to prevent that. It's how I begin every REXX program.
My worst case: Once, as an experiment or accidentally I coded
"do" instead of "DO". It failed with a message like:
ILLEGAL STATEMENT: "DO".
That's wrong two ways:
i) "DO" is not illegal.
i) "DO" is not what I coded.
CLIST has a mortal terror of lower case.
--
gil
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