On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:57:28 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >IBM never upgraded TSO/E for the REXX standard. I see nothing in z/OS TSO/E >REXX Reference Version2 Release3, SA32-0972-30 about built-in variables TRUE >and FALSE. > >More important, IMHO, is that IBM did not add the ANSI extensions to ADDRESS. >> >>http://www.rexxla.org/rexxlang/standards/ has ordering information and links. >>At $125, I'd just go for the draft, but it's probably worth it if you're >>trying to implement ANSI-compliant Rexx (sic). >> >(direct link: http://www.rexxla.org/rexxlang/standards/j18pub.pdf >) Are you thinking of constructs such as: 'ADDRESS' taken_constant [expression] [ 'WITH' connection]]
Intriguing. Seems to be specifying redirection. Pointless for CMS or TSO since the concept of standard input/standard output is alien to each. Relevant, of course, to OMVS, but OMVS was unable to exert much influence on the design of z/OS Rexx. I wonder how this made its way into the Standard since standards tend to be descriptive and rarely innovate extensions except to resolve ambiguities or inconsistencies. Perhaps from Amiga? OS/2? AIX? SAA? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
