On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:06 PM, Bob Bolch wrote:
It leads people to produce CMS programs that only work
in BREXX on VM/370, and not in REXX on later VM systems.
Well - I too remember REXX on old school VM and as you imply it had no IO and you had to use EXECIO - so I understand your point and so I did some googling.
And I found that today (is z/VM 7.1 the latest and greatest?) REXX does implement the standard REXX IO functions that I was talking about - see?
I was surprised - and I predict future pain as people compare what I do with IBM's implementation {sigh}
In fact, I was planning to pretend that no one would miss or remember STREAM()!
(Actually, and more seriously, BREXX has an implementation of it).
A
PS - Appreciate the point about add-ons - as you know it is on the old road-map! :-)
PPS - Presuming you don't care about the extra GCCLIB functions - I have never sensed you getting too worried about C90 standards ...
