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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:25:21 EDT
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- From: Scott Ophof <ophof@SERVER.UWINDSOR.CA>
- Subject: Relaxing of argument-passing restriction?
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- A definite improvement of REXX would be to define the number of
- passable argument strings AT THE COMMAND-LINE LEVEL to be
- implementation-dependant. Calls to internal subroutines & built-in
- functions are not subject to this limit.
-
- I'm referring to the dropping of the following on page 83 of "The
- REXX Language" (edition 2):
- 3: Programs called as commands can only have 0 or 1 argument
- strings.
- and (getting way ahead) replacing it with something like:
- 3: Though implementation-dependant, programs called as commands
- will usually have 0 or 1 argument strings.
-
- This restriction has always been a problem in building really good
- stuff in REXX.
- Who can come up with really valid reasons for having this max of 1
- apply to programs called as commands? And/or other reasons PRO
- relaxation of the restriction?
-
-
- Regards.
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