On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:36:02 -0400, Bob Woodside wrote:
>
>> Alas, there are still some things that you can do in CLIST but not
>> REXX. Fortunately, you don't need them very often.
>>
>Hmm....  Such as?
> 
Modal use of linemode editor, available alike in CLIST and CMS EXEC,
but not in EXEC2 or Rexx.  If you ever need it.

Multiple substitution/rescan in strings.  Challenging enough to use that
it may be considered a bug rather than a feature.  "make" and "C"
preprocessor do something similar.  A lot of programmers hereabouts
don't like those very much, either.

-- gil

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