On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:11:00 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>The Rexx language processor is intended for scriften would you neepts that
>drive the CLI.
>I don't see a compelling need for it to accept input from stdin.
>
It's the UNIX tradition. Likewise, is there no compelling need for IRXJCL?
>How often would you need somthing like foo | rexx bar?
>
And, yet if bar is marked executable and has the Rexx magic number,
and is in PATH, foo | bar simply works.
>IMHO it makes more sense to write a wrapper tailored to a specific
>requirement.
>What are the issue with using an in-storage procedure?
>
It makes most sense if someone else writes that wrapper. Perhaps something
that reads a file into storage and invokes the Rexx API.
-- gil
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