Rexx builtin function module

[ErosOlmi]

ALIAS command exists as script command but doesn't exist as SDK function.
I think I can easily add a new SDK function but even if you will be able to ALIAS thinBasic main flow control keywords you will not be able to change they syntax
FOR will remain FOR and DO will remain DO even if you alias them
And you will not able to ALIAS FOR into DO because DO already exists. ALIAS can create "new" aliases.

Ciao
Eros

[Robert Hodge]

Right, I understand that if you had an SDK function that was the equivalent of the ALIAS statement, it could not replace (or remove!) existing keywords, but only add new ones that were different spellings of existing ones. That would be enough.

I believe that, along with the existing ability to define string and numeric constants should be enough.

For constants, does the SDK require you to put the prefix character on the names? For example, the sample code has these two lines,

'thinBasic_AddEquate "%MyNumericEquate", "" , 1
'thinBasic_AddEquate "$MyStringEquate", "ABC" , 0

Is the % and $ required, or is this just a convention? If I want an equate without these, can you determine which is intended, like this?

'thinBasic_AddEquate "MyNumericEquate", "" , 1 ' a number, because "" means there is no string
'thinBasic_AddEquate "MyStringEquate", "ABC" , 0 ' a string, because "ABC" present

I haven't run across any docs or comments that explain if you could do that or not.

[ErosOlmi]

It is possible to avoid % or $ specifying the 3rd parameter but looking at the code of "thinBasic_AddEquate" I see there can be a bug.

I will open an bug case and fix for the next update.
So for the moment use $ or %