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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN