Todd Burch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've been coding in REXX since 1986 (started on VM).  I like to consider
>myself somewhat proficient in it.   However, this little tidbit ate my lunch
>today.  I was running through ASID numbers in an IPCS dump.  I was testing
>my lookup logic with an ASID of zeros, and kept getting incorrect output.
>My subroutine kept returning ASID 224 (decimal), and I was expecting it to
>fail.

>Can you guess what the problem turned out to be?  ;-)

I bet it had to do with the fact that you were using "=" rather than "==", so 
0E01 = 0000 ...

What do I win?

...phsiii (Everybody gets bitten by this one once!)

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