Re: [GNU-COBOL] PIC -> edit masks -> a standard large numeric representation

[Fred Mobach <fred@mobach.nl>]

"David L. Nicol" wrote:

> If we held everything as extensible ascii strings and
> did decimal math on them it would be slow but we wouldn't have
> to write the same methods multiple times.

Do you mean you want to held the contents of the fields as defined by the data
structures as extensible ascii strings or only intermediate fields which will be
passed to the run-time system ?

Regards,

Fred Mobach



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