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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:21:23 EDT
- Sender: REXX Programming discussion list <REXXLIST@UGA.BITNET>
- From: Kent Fiala <SNOKLF@VM.SAS.COM>
- Subject: Re: Relaxing of argument-passing restriction?
- Comments: To: General REXX Discussion List
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- 15 Sep 1992 01:25:21 EDT from <ophof@SERVER.UWINDSOR.CA>
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- On Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:25:21 EDT Scott Ophof said:
- >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.
-
- In REXX it's unambigous that the statement
-
- call gem arg1, arg2
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- passes two arguments, and that the statement
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- call gem 'arg1, arg2'
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- passes one argument. How would you implement the same distinction
- at the command-line level?
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