The address after F: might actually be necessary; the address before return, not so much.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 4:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue) On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 20:59:26 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> But I read comments from Rexx programmers who yet insist that compound >>symbols must have positive integer tails and the upper bound in the 0th >>member. > >What is a "Rexx programmer"? It doesn't sound like they actually know REXX. > FOTRAN refugees? >> Relying on PROCEDURE to reset ADDRESS, SIGNAL ON, etc.? > >Reset? AFAIK, the environment is intact after return. Or do you mean falling >into a procedure statement, which I had assume was invalid. > I've seen such as: F: procedure ADDRESS ISREDIT [ ... code ... ] ADDRESS TSO RETURN Or similarly inserting a needless ADDRESS after the call to F. >> Using relational expressions as arithmetic terms? > >Perfectly reasonable if you're used to a language with bit or Boolean data >types. > I'll confess to having replaced: if A==B then X = 'FooBar'; else X = '' with: X = copies( 'FooBar', A==B ) >______________________________________ >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 3:48 PM >Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue >multitasking issue) > ... >(To what are you replying? Did this thread come from BITNET?) > I was misled because someone started the first ply of a changed subject with: Subject: Re: Unreadable ... -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
