Building Object REXX applications on Windows

Object REXX is an object-oriented version of the REXX language. Object-oriented extensions have been added to classic REXX, but its existing functions and instructions have not changed.

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The Object REXX interpreter is an enhanced version of its predecessor, with additional support for:

Classes, objects, and methods
Messaging and polymorphism
Single and multiple inheritance

Object REXX is fully compatible with classic REXX. In this section, whenever REXX is used, all versions of REXX are inferred, including Object REXX.

You do not precompile or bind REXX programs.

On Windows, REXX programs are not required to start with a comment. However, for portability reasons you are recommended to start each REXX program with a comment that begins in the first column of the first line. This will allow the program to be distinguished from a batch command on other platforms:

/* Any comment will do. */

REXX sample programs can be found in the directory sqllib\samples\rexx.

To run the sample REXX program updat, enter:

   rexx updat.cmd