On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:06:52 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>This is one main reason why I prefer the UNIX fork() philosophy >>rather than "threading". > >That philosophy led to the insanity that a command can't pass back an >environment variable to its caller. > Much alleviated by the mechanism of command substitution.
And hauntingly similar to the JCL insanity that one job step can't pass back a JCL variable to be used in the PARM to a subsequent step. And nothing similar to command substitution available as an alternative. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
