I was hoping ooRexx addressed that, but I don't see an ADDRESS (env-expr) option, although it does have the ANSI option WITH.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2025 7:16 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: REXX say External Message: Use Caution On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:12:32 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >While there's no ambiguity, using VALUE or WITH as a variable name is >definitely bad form. > >FWIW, I prefer the more verbose keyword(values) syntax of PL/I. > I was wishing for an instruction form in which I could issue a single command to an environment expression in a single REXX instruction. I imagined I could do this as: ADDRESS ( expression ) [command] I i can still do this with poorer syntax checking as: interpret 'ADDRESS '''||(expression)''' '''command'''' provided ( expression ) evaluates to a single symbol. _______________________________________ >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2025 3:57 PM > ..... >If I had been emperor of the REXX Universe, I would have >provided only two forms: > ADDRESS symbol [command] >and > ADDRESS ( expression ) [command] -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
