On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:33:56 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Be careful what you ask for - you might get it. It's one of the things that I >don't like about REXX. > >ObHamlet "And make us rather bear those semicolons we have, then fly to >continuation conventions that we know not of" > ( C 'then' 'than')
Why? I find Rexx pleasantly consistent there: An instruction is terminated by: o A newline not preceded by a comma o Or a semicolon Spaces are irrelevant Newline and semicolon are highly interchangeable. Compare POSIX shell conventions. Are they even documented? For example: 542 $ for I in 1 2 > do > echo $I > done OK, but: 544 $ for I in 1 2; do; echo $I; done -sh: syntax error near unexpected token `;' -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
