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Subject: Re: command-line calculator?
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in message <20040625183429.GA10616@moo.holy.cow>,
wrote Parv thusly...
>
>   Perl:
>     perl -e 'print +(17 * 36)'
> 
>   awk:
>     echo |awk '{print 17 * 36}'

Oh, in Rexx...

  echo 'say 17 * 36 ' | rexx

  ...or...

  rexx  #  Interpreter
  say 17 * 36
  ^D  # Ctrl-D


Just wondering out loud ... Is it not possible either in rexx-imc or
-regina to have something like the perl functionality (make rexx to
execute a string as if it were a valid statement/expression) ?


  - Parv

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