[WarpCast] Fwd: NetRexx 1.148 - 12/23/98




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Source: Steve Wendt (stevew@hartnell.cc.ca.us)
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NetRexx 1.148 has been released:
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx/

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>Date: Tue, 22 Dec 98 13:04:38 GMT
>From: "Mike Cowlishaw" 
>To: ibm-netrexx@hursley.ibm.com
>Subject: NetRexx 1.148

This release makes significant improvements in importing
classes and in the SELECT instruction:

* The SELECT instruction now allows a CASE keyword, which
  lets an expression be evaluated once and then tested in
  each WHEN clause. For example:

  i=1
  select case i+1
    when 1 then say 'one'
    when 2 then say 'two'
    when 3 then say 'three'
  end

  See the NetRexx Supplement for details.

* An explicit class import will now disambiguate short
  references. For example, after

     import java.awt.List

  a reference to the class List would refer to that class,
  not the class java.util.List (introduced in Java 1.2).

* Several improvements in code generation, including the
  treatment of small integers as, for example, type byte
  without need for explicit casts.

* The format method in the Rexx class has been corrected
  to completely follow the ANSI X3-274 definition and the
  NetRexx specification.

--
Mike Cowlishaw, IBM Fellow, IBM UK Laboratories
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com
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