On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 20:59:26 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> But I read comments from Rexx programmers who yet insist that compound >>symbols must have positive integer tails and the upper bound in the 0th >>member. > >What is a "Rexx programmer"? It doesn't sound like they actually know REXX. > FOTRAN refugees?
>> Relying on PROCEDURE to reset ADDRESS, SIGNAL ON, etc.? > >Reset? AFAIK, the environment is intact after return. Or do you mean falling >into a procedure statement, which I had assume was invalid. > I've seen such as: F: procedure ADDRESS ISREDIT [ ... code ... ] ADDRESS TSO RETURN Or similarly inserting a needless ADDRESS after the call to F. >> Using relational expressions as arithmetic terms? > >Perfectly reasonable if you're used to a language with bit or Boolean data >types. > I'll confess to having replaced: if A==B then X = 'FooBar'; else X = '' with: X = copies( 'FooBar', A==B ) >______________________________________ >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 3:48 PM >Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue >multitasking issue) > ... >(To what are you replying? Did this thread come from BITNET?) > I was misled because someone started the first ply of a changed subject with: Subject: Re: Unreadable ... -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN