Re: [GNU-COBOL] PIC

["David L. Nicol" <david@kasey.umkc.edu>]

Randall Bart wrote:


> The most tedious of all items of COBOL grammar is PICTURE.

I'm getting out of this that PIC is short for PICTURE,
and that PICTURE is a language for defining record structure
of packed data. 

Someone enumerated a few PIC primitives, possibly all
of them.  Do vendors add vendor-specific letters to PIC
syntax?

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               David Nicol 816.235.1187 nicold@umkc.edu
                                        Enough already.

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