Re: [Oorexx-devel] [devel] ooRexx 5.0 GA

2022-06-23 Thread René Jansen
Hi Leslie, Yes, it seems that ’specs’ keeps growing and growing. The good news is that in our implementation Jeff did a separate part for inputRange and if it works there, it should work everywhere. For clarity, I did not try this because at the moment, I did what I would do in Rexx. René. >

Re: [Oorexx-devel] [devel] ooRexx 5.0 GA

2022-06-22 Thread J Leslie Turriff
René, I see that in this pipeline you use reverse with specs to trim trailing parts of your records. I understand that the nrx specs stage does not yet completely emulate the CMS specs stage, but I hope that as it is improved it will fully support CMS-type inputRange notation.

Re: [Oorexx-devel] [devel] ooRexx 5.0 GA

2022-06-18 Thread Harmander Singh
Thank you. I too would not want this to hold up progress towards v5.0 On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 at 13:05, Michael Lueck wrote: > Greetings Harmander, > > Personally since Classic Rexx on say OS/2 is so antiquated these days, I > think the line has long been crossed for quickly executing untouched > Cl

Re: [Oorexx-devel] [devel] ooRexx 5.0 GA

2022-06-17 Thread Michael Lueck
Greetings Harmander, Personally since Classic Rexx on say OS/2 is so antiquated these days, I think the line has long been crossed for quickly executing untouched Classic Rexx programs on current ooRexx. At least that is my vote... when porting Classic Rexx to ooRexx, expect some code changes

Re: [Oorexx-devel] [devel] ooRexx 5.0 GA

2022-06-17 Thread Harmander Singh
Terry, One issue which came up in this context a long while back was that at some stage in the development of v5.0, the classic Rexx file input statements linein, charin 'had a performance hit' (they became much slower than their ooRexx counterparts). That problem doesn't appear to have been as ye

Re: [Oorexx-devel] [devel] ooRexx 5.0 GA

2022-06-17 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2022-06-17 15:53:37 Sanford Geiger wrote: > I agree that 5.0 is way overdue for GA. The only possible holdup that I can > think of is full support for all of OLE. Do we have such support? > It would be nice if there was documented support for GUI on non-Windows platforms (i.e. any of the Rexx n