On Wednesday, 01-11-1995  Dan Larson wrote to Bill Hemenway about
"HELP" as follows:

DL> BH>/* Open file for read & write */
DL> BH>   IF STREAM('F:\VXREXX\TEST.TXT','C','OPEN') == 'READY:' THEN
DL> BH>   DO
DL> 
DL> The comparison opertor for "equals" in REXX is = , not ==.

Hi Dan,

This is not true. There are 2 different comparison operators in REXX.
In this instance == is unambiguous, whereas = needs the
character/arithmetic ambiguity resolved.

Regards

Dave

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