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HeyBub

2005-11-07, 6:56 pm

GiuMir wrote:
> hello
> i'm an italian student and i have a little problem with a my project
> opensource. this program with acucobol
> i want add new function,but i have much problem.
> please who want help-me thanks.


You can't add a function in COBOL.


Chuck Stevens

2005-11-07, 6:56 pm


"HeyBub" <heybubNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> GiuMir wrote:
>
> You can't add a function in COBOL.


Can't say I know of an *implementation* that provides the capability to
declare and invoke user-defined functions, but I can say that the 2002 COBOL
standard most certainly requires support for it. 'Tain't even a
"processor-dependent feature".

I'd be surprised if absolutely nobody had included this much-demanded
feature in their pre-2002 implementations as a vendor extension ... Maybe
*you* can't adde a function in COBOL, but I'm not convinced the *submitter*
can't, and I certainly don't see a reason to extend that prohibition to the
Known Universe as a Universal Truism ...

-Chuck Stevens


William M. Klein

2005-11-07, 6:56 pm

Micro Focus has had this capability for a while - if you check out their
"vocabulary" feature. However, the ISO 2002 Standard method isn't available
(that I know of) in MF.

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"HeyBub" <heybubNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> GiuMir wrote:
>
> You can't add a function in COBOL.
>



Joe Zitzelberger

2005-11-09, 3:55 am

In article <11mv546d5rdvib1@news.supernews.com>,
"HeyBub" <heybubNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

> GiuMir wrote:
>
> You can't add a function in COBOL.


That is one of Cobols great failings.

The limited set of functions defined for us is nice, but hardly close to
a reasonable subset of universally useful functions...
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