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

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

Fred Mobach wrote:
> 
> "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

I'm not really clear on the boundaries of "run time system" I've been
talking about a conversion tool, the language into which the conversion
happens I am treating as a working black box
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