Thanks Mike and Rick for the clarification. As to the idea of doing both an OPTIONS keyword and an ::options directive, this seems unecessary to me. The keyword form would only provide a one-line way of specifying the choices that could be specified with multiple statements like: numeric digits 18 numeric form engineering numeric fuzz 2 trace off
However, STRICTNOVALUE is a new choice so perhaps we need a way to specify that choice in a non-directive way? Mike Cowlishaw wrote: > > > Let me first say that I am in favor of a mechanism to globally specify > > the various items that have been proposed for ::options. But I am not > > clear on why this needs to be a new directive when the language and > > standard provide for the OPTIONS keyword. Any help would be appreciated > > :-) > > For a program that's stand-alone in a file, the OPTIONS instruction is > fine, but the ::OPTIONS directive would apply to all > methods/subroutines/functions in a file. > > Actually it would make sense to define these as a OPTIONS instruction, > and then just say that ::OPTIONS is just like putting OPTIONS at the > start of every routine. Then programmers could mix & match as desired. > > Mike > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > / > / > > /Unless stated otherwise above: > IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number > 741598. > Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU/ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel -- Gil Barmwater ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
