On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 23:02:56 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>Unclean! Did you report it as a bug?
> 
I suspect it's WAD (BAD!)
o LEAVE as the target of an assignment is a variable name.
o Otherwise, LEAVE as the first token of an instruction
  is a keywod (LEAVE NAME)
o Otherwise, LEAVE is a symbol which may be a variable name.

For performance, Rexx gives high priority to detecting assignments.

Alas, them's the rules.  What would you report as a bug?
>
>________________________________________
>From: Paul Gilmartin 
>Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2024 11:50 AM
>
>Astonishment factor with such as "LEAVE = 'date'; LEAVE".  No
>Rexx syntax error, but unexpected result.

-- 
gil

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