In <listserv%201105151611482534.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 05/15/2011 at 04:11 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>certainly not in an interactive shell I'm not sure what you mean by an "interactive shell", nor why you would describe Rexx as being one, but there is nothing in Rexx that precludes compiling the entire file before executing any of it, and some implementations do just that. Rexx is a scripting language, not a shell. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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