Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!tellab5!laidbak!amiganet!austral!rrezaian From: rrezaian@austral.UUCP (Russell Rezaian) Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx Subject: Re: Dollarizing Message-ID: Date: 4 May 91 06:50:23 GMT References: <91119.112324DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991Apr30.191547.6197@eliot.uucp> Organization: D.O.C. Data Processing Systems Lines: 28 In article <1991Apr30.191547.6197@eliot.uucp> slr@eliot.UUCP (Stuart Roll/Development) writes: [..] >The standard definition of Rexx is found in the book "The REXX Language" >by M.F. Cowlishaw, who just by coincidence happens to be the author of the >REXX language. The book is in it's second edition now (Prentice Hall) and >contains the definition of "language version 4.00" [...] >I can't imagine them not implementing the format function. I wonder what >else they left out? (Your ARexx book may list the differences in an >appendix or something.) [...] The omissions in the ARexx function libraries are puzzling to say the least... Format doesn't seem to be obvious, (check the update docs that came with 1.15, he might have added it...) and even stranger there is one example that drives a friend of mine nuts. It is so strange because only one of a (usually) matched pair of functions was implemented: to wit, case conversion. There is a toupper function, but NO tolower. I have never needesd these, but a friend of mine REALLY wants a tolower function for use in one of his larger programs. I don't claim to know what kind of work went into implementing AREXX, I am pretty impressed by what I have seen, but there are a few little perplexing things still floating around... -- Russell Rezaian | rrezaian@austral.UUCP P.O. Box 479 | rrezaian@amiganet.chi.il.us Naperville, Il. 60566-0479 | "One is best punished for one's USA | Virtues." Nietzsche.