Darin McBride wrote on 02 Jan 1996 at 22:49 to Ruud Senden:

 RS> Does anybody know whether is is possible to test those parts (or,
 RS> in general, the whole REXX-program) for syntax-errors? Does

 DM> Not knowing the size/scope of the application, but since it's in
 DM> REXX it shouldn't be too big (otherwise you'd want to move to a
 DM> faster language), try using a trace ?r right before you hit the
 DM> area where you COULD run into the problem. 

Thank you for your answer, I think this will be good enough for my
application, since it isn't too big. I hoped there existed a program which
could check the whole program for syntax errors, without having to run the
program and force the program to execute parts which are normally almost
never executed.

BTW, Very big REXX-programs exist, I know one which is over 200KB. It runs
slowly on my system indeed, but the advantage is that it runs on both OS/2
and VM.

Regards,
  Ruud  (Internet: rsenden{at}cs.ruu.nl) 

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