Re: [GNU-COBOL] PIC

[Randall Bart <Barticus@att.net>]

At 11:32 PM 10/26/99 , Chad Slaughter wrote:

>yes, vendors do add specific letters and meaning to the PIC

In Cobol-68 we had a lot of this.  Currently, you will see compilers 
accepting additional simple insertion characters (eg, ":") and a character 
for 16-bit character (N in the draft standard, but K (Kanji) and other 
letters in some compilers).

>and all of cobol
>for that matter, which is why we are concentrating on using the 85 std,
>maybe the 9x when if its released(anybody have up date on that bad boy?)

I'm a non-voting member of J4.  Some are calling it Cobol-2000, but I'm not.

At 11:12 PM 10/26/99 , Chad Slaughter wrote:
>welll...sort of... its not C++ or java exceptions...

Cobol-20XX has real exception handling.  The current intent is for GNU 
Cobol to meet Cobol-1985 (as amended) but all implementors should have an 
eye toward the demands of Cobol-20XX.


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