On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 18:26 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 16:58:47 -0500, John McKown wrote: > > > >I think of a REXX stem variable the same way that I do an Perl hash. Or > >more like a value associated with a "key" where the key is an arbitrary > >value. And a stem.var1.var2 is like a hash of a hash in Perl. > > > If I understand what you mean by "hash of a hash", I believe not. > As I posted yesterday: > > Beware the pitfall. If: > > W = 'a.b' > X = 'c' > Y = 'a' > Z = 'b.c' > > then Stem.W.X and Stem.Y.Z refer to the same member of the > compound, regardless that none of the subscripts are equal. > > Multiple subscripts are flattened, in a possibly degenerate manner. > > -- gil > > ------
Ouch. I didn't realize that. I must have missed some of the previous posts. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
