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From: terry@uts.amdahl.com (Lewis T. Flynn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: REXX: What is it?
Message-ID: <ba2y02PR75Bo01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 18 Dec 89 19:01:20 GMT
References: <41652@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
Reply-To: terry@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Lewis T. Flynn)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <41652@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) writes:
>
>  However you cannot extend the syntax of REXX. This is what would be
>required to add continuations.

Continuations are in the original REXX definition, perhaps the implementor
of AREXX left them out (or perhaps I don't understand the discussion). At any
rate, on page 19 of "The REXX Language" (by M.F. Cowlishaw) it says that REXX
will assume a semicolon at the end of a line unless 1) the line ends in an
unterminated comment, or 2) the last non comment token was a comma in which
case, the comma is replaced by a blank and the line is continued.

Pardon me if this has been answered, but I've been away and am just catching
up.

Terry