>And PROCEDURE gives you lexical scoping of a sort, no? Yes and no, mostly no.
The term lexical scoping normally includes proper handling of nesting, which REXX doesn't have. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Phil Smith III <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 11:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Heretic alert: I really detest TSO REXX (the language) Gil wrote: >I call that weakness a tie with lack of regular expressions. There's a similar >bias in the IBM community to consider regexen Bad. Well, we could have a whole 'nother thread on whether regex are A Good Thing or not ("now you have two problems" and all that), but actually there was at least one regex implementation for Rexx, as a function package, so it sort of winds up being (arguably!) the same point. David Crayford complained about Rexx being typeless and lacking lexical scoping. These are considered strengths by some of us. And PROCEDURE gives you lexical scoping of a sort, no? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
