On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 01:36:44 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>It is a capital error to assume unfamiliarity just because sombody eschews a
>language feature. I am a very heavy user of abuttment in REXX. I agree with
>Wayne that there is a good case for using variables in this particular case,
>
I agree strongly when a string expression is to be used repeatedly.
Less so for assigning a single character string to a symbol.
> although I would quarrel with his coice of name. The constructs '"' and "'"
> can be hard to visually distinquisheverywhere they appear. The style
>
> apost = "'"
> uoote = '"'
>
(proportional fonts aggravate the problem.)
> ...
> foo = apost|bar||apost
>
A mone mnemonic name (Hungarian notation?) might be:
fqbar = apost||bar||apost
>concetrrate the problem at the point of definition.
--
gil
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