SAY EXEC: the world's shortest, easy to use, pocket calculator for REXX envorinments

This short REXX function can be used under any REXX environments like VM/CMS or MVS/TSO or OS/2 Command Shell or PC/DOS/MS/DOS WINDOWS Command Shell or Linux/AIX with REXX or WIN/95,WIN/98,WIN/xx with Objectrex as a

Command line pocket calculator
(Use like say 7*8 would result in "7*8 = 56" and return "56")
Test tool for any other REXX function
(Use like say d2x(65) would result in "d2x(65) = 41" and return "41" for a simple Decimal to heXadecimal conversion)

Sourcecode of Rexx funkction SAY (rename to say.bat or say.rex)
(you may use this under VM/CMS as "SAY EXEC" or MS/DOS as SAY.BAT)

The very simplest sourcecode version of this powerful calculator is only 2 lines:

/* REXX */
interpret 'say' arg(1)

A free PC rexx interpreter (REXXPC88) for DOS/WIN/OS/2 can be downloaded from http://www.filelibrary.com:8080/cgi-bin/freedownload/DOS/h/56/rexxpc88.zip
Use it like "REXXIBM SAY.BAT 1/3 " or function call: "REXXIBM SAY.BAT zone(12 7 60) " where zone.bat is the function.

Rexx tips from: http://www.markcrocker.com/rexxtipsntricks/rxtt28.1.toc.html