I didn't know that! I remember finding EXEC2 and Rexx at the same time and
thinking "powerful stuff", followed by "I prefer Rexx" :-)
In my case I just wanted something terser than the likes of:
put skip(1) list('Hello, world');
-and-
DISPLAY msg UPON DISPLAY WITH NO ADVANCING.
I even considered:
!"Return code " RC
but that gets awkward if I want to allow ! in:
if RC != 0 {
HCF
}
Roops
On Sat, 21 Jun 2025, 00:32 Glenn Knickerbocker, <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:49:53 +0100, Colin Paice <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >I think SAY came about because of history. In the beginning, most
> people
> >using REX(X) ran it on CMS interactively and it chatted to the end user
> >running the exec.
>
> Mike's explanation in The REXX Language was that "SAY . . . typically
> causes it to be displayed (or spoken, or typed, etc.) to the user." He had
> blind friends (and/or antagonists) using talking terminals among the early
> users, so for them SAY really did mean "say."
>
> ¬R
>
>
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