On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 19:50:56 +0200, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: > ... >There are *no* reserved words in Rexx like in many other languages. (This >alleviates one to have to >learn them by heart. But more importantly, should the language get additional >keywords over time > I disagree. Although it's context-sensitive. But ITERATE and LEAVE are keywords within DO loops, which may not be intuitively obvious. Otherwise they would be commands. RETURN is generally a keyword. And THEN is a keyword in an IF.
>they would not break existing Rexx programs that happen to use them already, >unlike other >programming languages.) > Not true. When I first learned Rexx, A='XYZ'B was legal. Later, it became a syntax error. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
