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- From: eric@sejnet.sunet.se (Eric Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.012801.1@sejnet.sunet.se>
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- Organization: SUNET, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <REXXLIST%92091111123047@DEARN> <1992Sep11.190834.16887@hou.amoco.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 01:28:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.190834.16887@hou.amoco.com>, zjlc12@hou.amoco.com (Jerry Campbell) writes:
- > 3 - each word oriented, builtin function will have an extra parameter that
- > can be used to override the implementation default.
-
- Many of these functions already have a bunch of optional parameters. We're
- talking about ending up with things like FUNCTION(A,B,,,'20090D0A'x) with each
- function having a different amount of commas, not to mention the hassle of
- typing the list of delimiters every time.
-
- > 4 - logical comparisons will use the implementation default delimiters to
- > fudge the ends of strings. Unless the strict comparator operators are
- > used.
-
- Which gives you an incomplete/inconsistent tools - for some things you can
- define your delimiters, for others you can. Not very convenient I'm afraid.
-
- Eric
-