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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:32:48 -0400
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- From: cultural elite <dsr@LNS598.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
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- Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET> writes:
- >Well, the Unix folks have rather dug themselves a hole on that one,
- >haven't they, Charlie. It's not just a question of parse, what about
- >substr, or left/right.
-
- What about them? I would think substr(), left() and right() would be
- unaffected.
-
- >They will have the same problem. I guess we
- >could say that just because c=a||b doesn't mean expand(c)=expand(a)||
- >expand(b). But we knew that already. And your parse example is just
- >this problem in another guise. In fact, the Unix folks have a worse
- >problem. You can have c=a||b, but pos(a,c)=0! Wow! I don't think
- >I want that in MY os. But there is no accounting for taste! I would
- >really like Anders (I assume the first letter is in fact capitalized)
- >and other Unix types to say if they can stand it that:
- >
- > c=a||b; say pos(a,c)
- >
- >would say 0? It is not what I mean by REXX. Sorry this rambles so. Dave
-
- Ok, call me blind, I but I can't see this hole I seem to be in. You'll
- have to explain how you get c=a||b; pos(a,c)=0 out of any sensible
- proposal.
-
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