IMHO, yes.  It keeps with the philosophy of general flexibility and
"letting the programmer do what they want when they want" even if we can't
think of a reason right now.


OREXXMan
Q: What do you call the residence of the ungulate with the largest antlers?
A: A moose pad.
:-D
Would you rather pass data in move mode (*nix piping) or locate mode
(Pipes) or via disk (JCL)?  Why do you think you rarely see *nix commands
with more than a dozen filters, while Pipelines specifications are commonly
over 100s of stages, and 1000s of stages are not uncommon.
REXX is the new C.

On Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 05:49 Rony G. Flatscher <[email protected]>
wrote:

> ooRexx being a dynamic language usually allows for defining, e.g. classes
> statically with
> directives, but also dynamically at runtime instantiating .class (and
> creating and assigning methods
> and the like).
>
> The ::options directive has become quite powerful and it would be helpful
> to be able to a) query all
> package's current settings and b) allowing to change the (::options
> related) package settings at
> runtime ("dynamic"). (Maybe a proper Options class may be helpful which
> allows for interrogating and
> setting options.)
>
> This may help in situations like using (maybe older) Rexx programs for
> which some settings should be
> changed (like "any syntax", but also "trace ..." comes to mind, etc.).
>
> Would that be seen as a desired improvement?
>
> ---rony
>
>
>
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