>At the risk of starting another flame war, I would strongly discourage use of 
>INTERPRET.

While I used to have that bias, I have since found valid uses for it.


>While it may work correctly in some instances, it leads to problems in 
>general, and is easily replaced by "value()".

This sounds Knee-Jerk.


>I first ran across this problem while working at an ISV, and had to maintain 
>code designed to manipulate JCL. >The author used an INTERPRET that 
>self-destructed the first time it encountered a JCL comment.

Is this a problem with INTERPRET, or a problem with programming/testing skills?

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