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From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A small ARexx example, and other useful tidbits . . .
Message-ID: <896@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 88 02:50:02 GMT
References: <26223@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Organization: Public Access - Houston, Tx
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Keywords: Warning: also contains a small assembly language example!

In article ... kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
> I hadn't really thought about posting it, until Peter da Silva catagorized
> the REXX language as being "PL/I like".  Bunk.

It's PL/1-like. I've extensive experience with another PL/1 derivitive
(namely PL/M), and moderate experience with PL/1 itself (despite my best
attempts at avoiding it :->).

There's nothing inherently wrong with being PL/1-like, so don't be so
defensive. I just happen to prefer weird C derivitives.

> say "Cuckoo at" zhour||":"||xmin
                 ^ Don't you want a concatenation operator here?

> select
>   when xhour=0  then do; xhour="twelve"; if xmin=0 then mnite="midnite"; end
>   when xhour=11 then xhour = "elaven"
>   when xhour=12 then do; xhour="twelve"; if xmin=0 then mnite="noon"; end
>   otherwise nop
> end

An improvement over "DO CASE", I must say.

> else do
>   tmin=xmin%10
>   if tmin=1 then do;
                     ^ Isn't this redundant?

> if opt="ALARM" then address COMMAND speak dingaling
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Mind explaining this
                                                      construct?
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