How Directives Are Processed

You place any directives (and their method code) after all other program code. When you run a program containing directives, REXX:

• Processes the directives first, to set up the program's classes, methods, and routines.

• Runs any program code preceding the first directive. This code can use any classes, methods, and routines set up by the directives.

  Once REXX has processed the code preceding the directive, any public classes and objects the program defines are available for other programs (having the appropriate ::REQUIRES directive) to use.