Note that ADDRESS WITH is new with ooRexx 5.0, which last I saw was still in beta. It's been in Regina for a long time.
OTOH, facilities such as DO OVER has been in OREXX and ooRexx for decades, and are quite useful. And, yes, similar facilities are available in other languages, e.g., Python, Ruby. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Rony G. Flatscher [rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at] Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 9:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Some questions on SYSCALL ... Only then would one become able to take advantage of the many new ooRexx features like becoming able to fetch e.g. stems by reference, or using ANSI REXX' "address...with" (e.g. redirecting input from stems or standard and error output to stems), being able to create public Rexx routines (can be directly called from another REXX program) and much more. ... ---rony ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
