Cobol - Re: A very *PERSONAL* view of ISO 2002 COBOL for the IBM (mainframe) environment

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Re: A very *PERSONAL* view of ISO 2002 COBOL for the IBM (mainframe) environment

Chuck Stevens

2005-02-28, 8:55 pm

"LX-i" <lxi0007@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:b2efc$421fe664$45491f85$14707@KNOLO
GY.NET...
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> Your 2200 buddies agree with IBM. :)

"Agrees with IBM" does not always imply "is more consistent with the COBOL
standard", though I acknowledge that in the context of pre-2002 COBOL format
there is an error here.

Whether you contend that a statement that immediately precedes a paragraph
header must in fact qualify additionally as a *sentence* (as would be the
case in free-form reference format anyway) or that what appears in Margin A
of the Procedure Division after a statement *or* a sentence has to be either
a paragraph header or a section header, the source code I cited isn't
standard pre-2002 COBOL. I think the first rule takes precedence over the
second.

-Chuck Stevens

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