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From: eric@sunic.sunet.se (Eric Thomas SUNET)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: exposing a stem passed as a arguement
Message-ID: <2253@sunic.sunet.se>
Date: 1 Nov 90 19:12:47 GMT
References: <1990Oct31.173237.895@wrkgrp.uucp> <1990Nov1.025608.15601@cs.umn.edu>
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
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The REXX book only defines things which work in all implementations, or rather
are supposed to. If it says you may not put anything between the label and the
PROCEDURE statement, it means you should expect that this will not work with
all implementations, although it might work with some.

Anyway the construct in question worked on the CMS REXX up to and including
release 5. It does not work with the compiler, and was made invalid by release
6 of the interpreter for compatibility.

  Eric