On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 06:25:44 -0500, Willy Jensen wrote: > ... For GETNEXT however you must start again from the top as a a specific > GET will destroy the information that REXX stored for GETNEXT. At least that > is how I read the documentation, and experimentation seems to prove it. > Surely that should be a topic for an RFE.
>So perhaps what I really need is a GET LOCATE. > Rexx storage management is undocumented to end users, perhaps wisely. But if the Rexx interpreter ever moves objects to compact storage, GET LOCATE is unworkable. I once used a language in which the programmer could: o Electively request a garbage collection. o (Temporarily) disable garbage collections. ... in order to stabilize data locations. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
